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Making sense of irrational numbers - Ganesh Pai
Category: Education
Duration: 00:04:41
Publish Date: 2018-03-16 08:00:06
Description: Like many heroes of Greek myths, the philosopher Hippasus was rumored to have been mortally punished by the gods. But what was his crime? Did he murder guests or disrupt a sacred ritual? No, Hippasus's transgression was mathematically proving the hitherto unprovable. Ganesh Pai describes the history and math behind irrational numbers.
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