Hipaso de Metaponto

His life:

-Hipaso de Metaponto was a mathematician, philosopher and music theorist. He was member of the Pythagoras´ school.

His life:

-He was born in the year 500 B.C at Metaponto, a Greek city located in the Tarento´s gulf, in the south of Italia.

Discoverings:

-The building of a dodecahedron inside a sphere.

Discoverings:

-The incommensurability.

Discoverings:

-People think he discovered the existence of the irrational numbers when Pythagoreans thought everything was based on rational numbers and because of that, he was expelled of the school.

curiosities

-There are different hypothesis about his death: he died in a shipwreck, he commited a suicide or the Pythagoreans killed him.

Curiosities

-Metaponto´s character appears in a short-movie about the origins of the number FI and about his precense on the nature.