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Metapontum or
Metapontium (Ancient Gr****: Μεταπόντιον, romanized: Metapontion) was an
important city of
Magna Graecia,
situated on the gulf of Tarentum...
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Hippasus of
Metapontum (/ˈhɪpəsəs/; ‹See Tfd›Gr****: Ἵππασος ὁ Μεταποντῖνος, Híppasos; c. 530 – c. 450 BC) was a Gr****
philosopher and
early follower of...
- Laevinus, and the
combined forces of Gr****s from Epirus, Tarentum, Thurii,
Metapontum, and
Heraclea under the
command of Pyrrhus, king of Epirus.
Although the...
- of Pythagoras.
After the ****cution of the
Pythagoreans at
Croton and
Metapontum in
Magna Graecia he
escaped and went to Thebes,
where he
became the teacher...
- may have been
killed during this ****cution, or he may have
escaped to
Metapontum and died there.
Pythagoras influenced Plato,
whose dialogues, especially...
- Basilicata. The
frazione of
Metaponto is the site of the
ancient city of
Metapontum.
Until the 15th century, it was
called Camarda. It is home to a castle...
-
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...
- time or cir****stances of this discovery, but the name of
Hippasus of
Metapontum is
often mentioned. For a while, the
Pythagoreans treated as an official...
-
attributed to Pythagoras, more
specifically to the
Pythagorean Hippasus of
Metapontum, who
produced a (most
likely geometrical)
proof of the
irrationality of...
- Von
Fritz (1945). "The
Discovery of
Incommensurability by
Hippasus of
Metapontum".
classics in the
History of Gr**** Mathematics.
Annals of Mathematics;...
