Zeno paradoxes
Paradojas de Zenón sobre el infinito y el movimiento
- Date
- c. 450 BCE · confidence medium
- Place
- Elea, Magna Graecia, Italy
- Credited to
- Zeno of Elea
- People
- 👤 Zenón de Elea490 BCE–425 BCE
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What was discovered
Arguments (Achilles and the tortoise, the dichotomy, the arrow) that reveal the difficulties of infinitely dividing space and time. They were the first to raise the problem of summing infinitely many terms.
The paradoxes were only formally resolved by 19th-century limit theory.
What it led to
- the method of exhaustion
- convergent series
- mathematical analysis and limits
Built on
- Parmenides's Eleatic philosophy