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Commensurability (mathematics)
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von Fritz (1945). "The Discovery of Incommensurability by Hippasus of Metapontum". The Annals of Mathematics. 46 (2): 242–264. doi:10.2307/1969021. JSTOR 1969021Irrational 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 pentagramBattle 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 BomilcarBattle 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 setProof 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 officialSquare root of 2 (5,508 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 officialCardinality (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 elementarePythagorean theorem (12,566 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 theMathematical 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 squareCrotone (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 establishedNumber (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 ofOskar 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 theoristsGeometry (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 MathematicsTimeline 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 andHistory 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 andEuclidean 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 1969021Battle 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 capturedList 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, wasPythagorean 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