who discovered the numbers which were not rationals?
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Some scholars in the early 20th century credited Hippasus with the discovery of the irrationality of √2. Plato in his Theaetetus, describes how Theodorus of Cyrene (c. 400 BC) proved the irrationality of √3, √5, etc. up to √17, which implies that an earlier mathematician had already proved the irrationality of √2.
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The treatment of all numbers as rational is traced to Pythagoras, an ancient Greek mathematician. Pythagoras believed that any number could be expressed as a ratio of two integers, such as 3/4 or 5/10.
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