The most romantic aspect of the tradition concerning Hippasus is the report that he drowned at sea in punishment for the impiety of making public and giving a diagram of the dodecahedron, a figure with twelve surfaces each in the shape of a regular pentagon (Iamblichus, VP 88). This is best understood as reflecting some sort of mathematical analysis of the dodecahedron by Hippasus, but it is implausible in terms of the history of Greek mathematics to suppose that he carried out a strict construction of the dodecahedron, which along with the other four regular solids is most likely to have first received rigorous treatment by Theaetetus in the fourth century BCE (Mueller 1997, 277; Waterhouse 1972; Sachs1917, 82). Nor is it clear why public presentation of technical mathematical analysis should cause a scandal, since few people would understand it. The most likely explanation is that the dodecahedron was a cult object for the Pythagoreans (dodecahedra in stone and bronze have been found dating back to prehistoric times) and that it was because of these religious connections that Hippasus’ public work on the mathematical aspects of the solid was seen as impious (Burkert 1972a, 460).
Another late story, which appears first in Plutarch, reports a scandal which arose when knowledge of irrational magnitudes was revealed, without specifying any punishment for the one who revealed it (Numa 22). In Pappus’ later version of the story, the person who first spread knowledge of the existence of the irrational was punished by drowning (Junge and Thomson 1930, 63–64). Iamblichus knows two different versions of the story, one according to which the malefactor was banished and a tomb was erected for him, signifying his expulsion from the community (VP 246), but another according to which he was punished by drowning as was the person (not specifically said to be Hippasus here) who revealed the dodecahedron (VP 247). Modern scholars have tried to combine the two stories and suppose that Hippasus discovered the irrational through his work on the dodecahedron (von Fritz 1945). This is pure speculation, however, since neither does any ancient source connect Hippasus to the discovery of the irrational nor does any source relate the discovery of the irrational to the dodecahedron (Burkert 1972a, 459). Some scholars nonetheless credit Hippasus with the discovery of irrationality (Zhmud 2012a, 274–278).
Which Dawn of War 1 expansion was the really terrible one?
Probably Soulstorm? I liked it because it finally had Dark Eldar, but it was pretty much just a worse Dark Crusade.
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zepherinRussian warship, go fuck yourselfRegistered Userregular
My hatred of painting is the only thing to keep me from indulging in warhammer, and what would be a 200 dollar a month habit. Like cocaine but with a lower chance of STIs.
My hatred of painting is the only thing to keep me from indulging in warhammer, and what would be a 200 dollar a month habit. Like cocaine but with a lower chance of STIs.
I mean you can pay people to paint for you. Or use contrast. Man that stuff makes painting easier.
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My hatred of painting is the only thing to keep me from indulging in warhammer, and what would be a 200 dollar a month habit. Like cocaine but with a lower chance of STIs.
are you sniffing cocaine from inside people's genitals
My hatred of painting is the only thing to keep me from indulging in warhammer, and what would be a 200 dollar a month habit. Like cocaine but with a lower chance of STIs.
are you sniffing cocaine from inside people's genitals
My hatred of painting is the only thing to keep me from indulging in warhammer, and what would be a 200 dollar a month habit. Like cocaine but with a lower chance of STIs.
are you sniffing cocaine from inside people's genitals
Are you not?
If there is any other way to do cocaine I need to have a stern conversation with some friends of mine
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jungleroomxIt's never too many graves, it's always not enough shovelsRegistered Userregular
my doggy loves my mom so much, she reacts more insanely for her than for me or my father (she lives with me and my dad, not my mom, and my mom visiting often means she gets to go play with my mom's dogs)
it makes me feel a little bad sometimes!
Our blossom likes my husband More than me T-T
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jungleroomxIt's never too many graves, it's always not enough shovelsRegistered Userregular
Overestimated traffic delay and I have 2 hours to mull about Reagan national
Have some whiskey while you wait
My stomach actually lurched in response to that
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All this talk in politics threads about m4a and I keep mentally appending 3e8...
Tanks are cool
fuck gendered marketing
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Going to get some poached eggs over corn beef hash at al’s breakfast then shop for books and records and then get a juicy Lucy at matt’s And then maybe a tiki cocktail at psycho suzi’s before dinner
Going to get some poached eggs over corn beef hash at al’s breakfast then shop for books and records and then get a juicy Lucy at matt’s And then maybe a tiki cocktail at psycho suzi’s before dinner
this all sounds great and esp brekkie
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Going to get some poached eggs over corn beef hash at al’s breakfast then shop for books and records and then get a juicy Lucy at matt’s And then maybe a tiki cocktail at psycho suzi’s before dinner
this sounds like a Frank O'Hara poem
Neon in daylight is a
great pleasure, as Edwin Denby would
write, as are light bulbs in daylight.
I stop for a cheeseburger at JULIET'S
CORNER. Giulietta Masina, wife of
Federico Fellini, e bell' attrice.
And chocolate malted. A lady in
foxes on such a day puts her poodle
in a cab.
There are several Puerto
Ricans on the avenue today, which
makes it beautiful and warm. First
Bunny died, then John Latouche,
then Jackson Pollock. But is the
earth as full as life was full, of them?
And one has eaten and one walks,
past the magazines with nudes
and the posters for BULLFIGHT and
the Manhattan Storage Warehouse,
which they'll soon tear down. I
used to think they had the Armory
Show there.
A glass of papaya juice
and back to work. My heart is in my
pocket, it is Poems by Pierre Reverdy.
Eddy on
"and the morning stars I have seen
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
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Airy
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jungleroomxIt's never too many graves, it's always not enough shovelsRegistered Userregular
Going to get some poached eggs over corn beef hash at al’s breakfast then shop for books and records and then get a juicy Lucy at matt’s And then maybe a tiki cocktail at psycho suzi’s before dinner
this sounds like a Frank O'Hara poem
Neon in daylight is a
great pleasure, as Edwin Denby would
write, as are light bulbs in daylight.
I stop for a cheeseburger at JULIET'S
CORNER. Giulietta Masina, wife of
Federico Fellini, e bell' attrice.
And chocolate malted. A lady in
foxes on such a day puts her poodle
in a cab.
There are several Puerto
Ricans on the avenue today, which
makes it beautiful and warm. First
Bunny died, then John Latouche,
then Jackson Pollock. But is the
earth as full as life was full, of them?
And one has eaten and one walks,
past the magazines with nudes
and the posters for BULLFIGHT and
the Manhattan Storage Warehouse,
which they'll soon tear down. I
used to think they had the Armory
Show there.
A glass of papaya juice
and back to work. My heart is in my
pocket, it is Poems by Pierre Reverdy.
“A Step Away From Them” is great
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zepherinRussian warship, go fuck yourselfRegistered Userregular
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https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pythagoreanism/
Probably Soulstorm? I liked it because it finally had Dark Eldar, but it was pretty much just a worse Dark Crusade.
I mean you can pay people to paint for you. Or use contrast. Man that stuff makes painting easier.
Clearly since they aren’t answering you at 11am the morning after they did not survive
I think I had too much whiskey this week
Roughly 3 liters in 5 days
P alright yeah?
are you sniffing cocaine from inside people's genitals
That's what I thought!
It was 5 days with old friends at a cabin on the river so I said fuck it
Are you not?
well you guys have those kinds of nights all of the year
That is approximately my annual whiskey intake
And I like whiskey
If there is any other way to do cocaine I need to have a stern conversation with some friends of mine
It is also my annual whiskey intake
Because I probably wont have any more for the rest of the year
>:[
Overestimated traffic delay and I have 2 hours to mull about Reagan national
"Autumn" is a made up season created by Big Lawn to sell rakes
Have some whiskey while you wait
Our blossom likes my husband More than me T-T
My stomach actually lurched in response to that
Tanks are cool
this all sounds great and esp brekkie
I need some magical bismuth...
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this sounds like a Frank O'Hara poem
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
Air flow keeps the temps low
Cred went on Friday night tho so maybe they did not
“A Step Away From Them” is great