I heard about this awhile ago and filed it under dumb facebook shit, but now my grandmother wants us all to read this book that "says some real interesting stuff about what shapes say about the world". Is there anything I should know about this particular type of nonsense?

  • Jeff_Benzos [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    The Pythagoreans were on a fishing trip one time when one of them came up with a proof that the square root of 2 couldn't be reduced to a fraction. They felt very strongly that all numbers could be represented by fractions, so they threw the guy overboard in the Mediterranean to drown