Rebecca Goldstein Quotes

And Then There Is Pythagoras. The Legend Is That The Founder Of Theoretical Mathematics Was So Outraged When One Of His Students, The Haplessly Gifted Hippasus, Discovered Irrational Numbers21 That He Sent The Poor Fellow Out On A Raft To Drown, Initiating A Venerable Tradition Of Professors Mistreating Their Graduate Students.

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