Hey, there is a long tradition of banning evil math… even Pythagoras did it… But, I guess he at least had good reasons, irrational numbers are super creepy and deserved to be banned.
To be pedantic, AFAIK there’s no evidence Pythagoras himself had anything to do with the censure of the discovery of irrational numbers. The common story has to do with his later followers, and could well be more fiction than fact in any case.
Talking about creepy numbers, the ones that always fucked with me are uncomputable numbers. That shit’s wack, yo
Hey, there is a long tradition of banning evil math… even Pythagoras did it… But, I guess he at least had good reasons, irrational numbers are super creepy and deserved to be banned.
To be pedantic, AFAIK there’s no evidence Pythagoras himself had anything to do with the censure of the discovery of irrational numbers. The common story has to do with his later followers, and could well be more fiction than fact in any case.
Talking about creepy numbers, the ones that always fucked with me are uncomputable numbers. That shit’s wack, yo