Zeno's Paradoxes

by Wesley C. Salmon

Book Overview

A reprint of the Bobbs-Merrill edition of 1970. These essays lead the reader through the land of the wonderful shrinking genie to the warehouse where the infinity machines are kept. By careful examination of a lamp that is switched on and off infinitely many times, or the workings of a machine that prints out an infinite decimal expansion of pi, we begin to understand how it is possible for Achilles to overtake the tortoise. The concepts that form...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0872205606
• ISBN13: 9780872205604
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"