11 for the math asks
[ID: an ask from genderfluid-snake that reads "I forgot to add pls. pls :)". End ID]
Don't worry, thank you for adding it after though!
11. Tell me a funny math story.
Though it's likely not exactly true the discovery of irrational numbers shocked Pythagoras so much that he pushed Hippasus (who is credited for the discovery) off of a boat causing Hippasus to drown
(note though that the Greeks were most likely not the first to discover irrational numbers since the Babylonians had a method for computing square roots)
Thanks for the ask!














