Hippasus, however, was not lauded for his efforts: according to one legend, he made his discovery while out at sea, and was subsequently thrown overboard by his fellow Pythagoreans “…for having produced an element in the universe which denied the…doctrine that all phenomena in the universe can be reduced to whole numbers and their ratios.”
Hippasus aguden, war atwahəka ye tirmaten: dǎɣ tafust iyat,ija ajaraw iness dǎɣ ebanɣ ad dǎɣ alkum atwajarin falas ijim as midawan iness Pythagortan” … ye ajaraw ən iji ən harat dǎɣ təməte tasibəhawət as…tamusne tas inta ijitan kul dǎɣ təməte adoben afənaz as maɗinan imdanen ad agədah nassən.”