Imagine founding an entire cult around the perfection of numbers and ratios only to have your student prove that √2 can't be expressed as a fraction. Historical accounts suggest Pythagoras had Hippasus drowned for this mathematical heresy. Talk about peer review gone wrong. The Pythagoreans literally believed "all is number" until √2 came along and shattered their worldview faster than you can say "irrational." Some mathematicians just can't handle the truth.
Pythagoras' Greatest Tragedy
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