Greek for the unbounded, the indeterminate. The bete noire of the Pythagoreans, which loomed when they discovered that the square root of 2 was "irrational", i.e., could not be represented as a ratio of two integers (e.g., 1.4142..., an unending decimal).
Greek for the unbounded, the indeterminate. The bete noire of the Pythagoreans, which loomed when they discovered that the square root of 2 was "irrational", i.e., could not be represented as a ratio of two integers (e.g., 1.4142..., an unending decimal).