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Zeno's Paradoxes
Salmon Wesley
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Description for Zeno's Paradoxes
Editor(s): Salmon, Wesley C. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: PD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 146 x 23. Weight in Grams: 490.
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 science—-space, time, motion, change, infinity-—are examined and explored in this edition. Includes an updated bibliography.
Product Details
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
317
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Cambridge, MA, United States
ISBN
9780872205611
SKU
V9780872205611
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About Salmon Wesley
Wesley C. Salmon is University Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, University of Pittsburgh.
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