Zeno of Elea
Zeno of Elea was an amazing Greek mathematician. ... Zeno is said to have lived during the fifth century BC in the Greek town of Elea in southern Italy. ... Zeno deserves to be in the Mathematics Hall of Fame because of his major contributions, the paradoxes, and some other minor things. The most noted of Zeno’s works are his paradoxes. ... To contradict them, Zeno took their argument of continuity to an extreme at which point their ideas looked quite absurd. To argue against plurality, Zeno said that if there are a continuous number of points then there are a given number of them. ... Similar to Zeno’s argument against plurality is his argument against motion. ... The first paradox Zeno made involving motion was called the Dichotomy. ... Zeno states that Achilles will never pass the tortoise even though he runs faster. ... Zeno stated that the world is made of instants. ... The Stadium is Zeno’s fourth paradox of motion. ... Zeno concluded that there was no such thing as indivisibles. In addition to Zeno’s paradoxes of plurality and motion, he had many other paradoxes.