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Commensurability (mathematics) (833 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

von Fritz (1945). "The Discovery of Incommensurability by Hippasus of Metapontum". The Annals of Mathematics. 46 (2): 242–264. doi:10.2307/1969021. JSTOR 1969021

Irrational number (5,253 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

numbers is usually attributed to a Pythagorean (possibly Hippasus of Metapontum), who probably discovered them while identifying sides of the pentagram

Battle of Capua (798 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Carthaginians. Hannibal had enjoyed considerable success, as Thurii, Metapontum, and Heraclea had fallen under Carthaginian control. Hanno, son of Bomilcar

Battle of Herdonia (210 BC) (1,220 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Herdonia, the Carthaginian general decided to resettle its population in Metapontum and Thurii to the south and destroy the city itself. Before that he set

Proof by infinite descent (2,224 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

time or circumstances of this discovery, but the name of Hippasus of Metapontum is often mentioned. For a while, the Pythagoreans treated as an official

Square root of 2 (5,485 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

time or circumstances of this discovery, but the name of Hippasus of Metapontum is often mentioned. For a while, the Pythagoreans treated as an official

Cardinality (2,778 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Von Fritz (1945). "The Discovery of Incommensurability by Hippasus of Metapontum". The Annals of Mathematics. Georg Cantor (1891). "Ueber eine elementare

Pythagorean theorem (12,548 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

integer multiples of a common subunit. According to one legend, Hippasus of Metapontum (ca. 470 B.C.) was drowned at sea for making known the existence of the

Mathematical constant (3,546 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

irrational numbers is usually attributed to the Pythagorean Hippasus of Metapontum who proved, most likely geometrically, the irrationality of the square

Number (7,755 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

attributed to Pythagoras, more specifically to the Pythagorean Hippasus of Metapontum, who produced a (most likely geometrical) proof of the irrationality of

Crotone (3,597 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

many Pythagoreans were massacred and Pythagoras himself had to flee to Metapontum, led to the Pythagoreans being driven out and a democracy established

Oskar Becker (1,934 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

pentagon (or in the later, simpler proofs, the triangle) by Hippasus of Metapontum, and the threat of (literally) "irrational" numbers. To German theorists

Geometry (9,874 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Von Fritz (1945). "The Discovery of Incommensurability by Hippasus of Metapontum". Classics in the History of Greek Mathematics. Annals of Mathematics;

Number theory (11,124 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Fritz, Kurt (2004). "The Discovery of Incommensurability by Hippasus of Metapontum". In Christianidis, J. (ed.). Classics in the History of Greek Mathematics

History of mathematics (15,998 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Von Fritz (1945). "The Discovery of Incommensurability by Hippasus of Metapontum". The Annals of Mathematics. Choike, James R. (1980). "The Pentagram and

Timeline of scientific discoveries (10,204 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Von Fritz (1945). "The Discovery of Incommensurability by Hippasus of Metapontum". The Annals of Mathematics. James R. Choike (1980). "The Pentagram and

Euclidean algorithm (15,118 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Fritz, K. (1945). "The Discovery of Incommensurability by Hippasus of Metapontum". Annals of Mathematics. 46 (2): 242–264. doi:10.2307/1969021. JSTOR 1969021

Battle of Sapriportis (1,330 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

towards land by oars, becoming prey to the inhabitants of Thurii and Metapontum. Of all the cargo ships that followed with supplies, very few were captured

List of drowning victims (5,884 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Alba Longa, drowned in the Tiber, which was named after him. Hippasus of Metapontum, a student of the mathematician Pythagoras, who, by some accounts, was

Pythagorean hammers (6,691 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

to the discovery of numerical ratios, using the monochord. Hippasus of Metapontum, an early Pythagorean (late 6th and early 5th centuries BCE), conducted