… at USF were the pre-Socratics who liked nothing better than to confound common sense. A brilliantly vexing example was Zeno the Eleatic and his argument that Achilles can never catch up to the tortoise; Achilles must first reach the line where the tortoise was last, and the tort...
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…anged the world. "Central to the story is the mathematicians' quest to tame infinity, which begins with the philosopher Zeno of Elea (about 450 BC, before Socrates) who raised paradoxes about infinity, continuity, time, space, and motion that confounded his contemporaries and pro...
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