He Has a Name!

The first martyr of Science was not, as is most often commonly assumed, Galileo Galilei.

It turns out it was a Greek Pythagorean philosopher who lived around 500 BC named Hippasus of Metapontum.

See this post for my brief and entirely fictionalized but hopefully reverent account of this incisive thinker.


[Thanks to Howard Anton and his quite readable Calculus textbook - wow, the words "readable" and "Calculus textbook" in the same sentence, and, even more shocking, side-by-side!]