Episode #76 - History of Physics | Pythagoras & Euler
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The Pythagorean Triplet
Pythagoras was a strong believer in, like, the religion of numbers. He thought that numbers were these godly figures that descended and leaked through the fabric of the universe. One pythagorean scholar who actually studied the isoceles triangle found it to be irrational. Pythagoras did not like him because he believed in this discreet world of whole numbers. And it actually turns out that irrational numbers are very, very important.
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