Zeno of Elea was a mathematician and philosopher who lived in approximately the period 495-430 BCE. He is perhaps most famous for the paradoxes that he posed (most people have heard of one version or another of the paradox of Achilles and the tortoise – Achilles, the ‘fleet-footed man-killer’ as Homer has it, is chasing the notoriously slow tortoise. He covers half the distance, he covers half the remaining distance, he covers and so on and never actually covers all the distance as long as he keeps covering half the remaining distance).
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