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Hippasus was a Greek mathematician of antiquity. He is credited for his proof that the square root of two is irrational, meaninng that it cannot be expressed as a ratio of two integers. The ancient Greeks were evidently not pleased with discovery, as legend has it that he was killed for his discovery! Physics guy

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