○○○cosmology⪢⪢
And part of this belief was that everything from cosmology and metaphysics to music and morals followed eternal rules describable as ratios of numbers.
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○○○dictum⪢⪢
Their dictum of "all is number" suggested that numbers were the building blocks of the universe.
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○○○Hippasus⪢⪢
Like many heros of Greek myths, the philosopher Hippasus was rumored to have been mortally punished by the gods. But what was his crime? Did he murder guests or disrupt a sacred ritual?
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○○○reverence⪢⪢
Hippasus belonged to a group called the Pythagorean mathematicians who had a religious reverence for numbers.
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○○○transgression⪢⪢
Hippasus's transgression was a mathematical proof: the discovery of irrational numbers
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