Zeno's Paradoxes - Softcover

Salmon, Wesley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0872205606 ISBN 13: 9780872205604

Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc, 2001

Synopsis

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 the basis of modern sciencea-space, time, motion, change, infinity-aare examined and explored in this edition. Includes an updated bibliography.

About this title

Synopsis:

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 the basis of modern science -- space, time, motion, change, infinity -- are examined and explored in this edition. Includes an updated bibliography. A reprint of the Bobbs-Merrill edition of 1970.

About the Author:

Wesley C. Salmon is University Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, University of Pittsburgh.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0872205606
• ISBN 13: 9780872205604
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320