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Pythagoreans were a math sect, and irrational numbers went against their holy doctrine when a member of the sect proved them to exist.
Although Pythogoras is probably just semi-historical. Pythogoras himself would probably have been quite excited about the revelation, but among other things his cult attributed basically all existing math to him while also doing a really, really bad job of preserving any of his actual writings.
Anyways, "his" theorum was being used in Babylon and Egypt centuries before his birth. He just popularized it in Greece.
Also, he wouldn't let you eat beans
That sicks fuck