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Friday 13 June 2014

Zeno of Elea

Zeno of Elea was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher of Southern Italy and a member of the Eleatic School founded by Parmenides. Aristotle called him the inventor of the dialectic. He is best know for his paradoxes, which Bertrand Russell has described as "immeasurably subtle and profound". (Source and for more information - wikipedia

Further information can be found on the MacTutor History of Mathematics.

Collection of Youtube videos on Zeno's Paradoxes




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