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By Deb Russell, About.com Guide to Mathematics since 2002

Those Secretive Pythagoreans!

Thursday November 3, 2005
Did you know that those very secretive Pythagoreans were expelled from the community for writing down their discoveries in mathematics? Learn about Hippasus of Metapontum Read more about their famous proofs.

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