Single Idea 7555

[catalogued under 6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 5. The Infinite / a. The Infinite]

Full Idea

Zeno was concerned with three increasingly abstract problems of motion: the infinitesimal, the infinite, and continuity; to state the problems is perhaps the hardest part of the philosophical task, and this was done by Zeno.

Gist of Idea

Zeno achieved the statement of the problems of infinitesimals, infinity and continuity

Source

comment on Zeno (Citium) (fragments/reports [c.294 BCE]) by Bertrand Russell - Mathematics and the Metaphysicians p.81

Book Reference

Russell,Bertrand: 'Mysticism and Logic' [Unwin 1989], p.81


A Reaction

A very nice tribute, and a beautiful clarification of what Zeno was concerned with.