Who is Zeno?
What is Zeno famous for?
His paradoxes
Who came up with this paradox?
Zeno
If one grain of rice droppes on the ground, it makes no (？）
Sound
Where is Zeno from?
Ancient Greece
Does this paradox involve the idea of infinity?
yes
What color did Ivan change the arrows to in his diagram?
RED
what century did Zeno live in?
4-5th century BCE
If you were to race with a turtle in real life, would you be able to catch up to it?
Yes, racing with a turtle is just an example in the paradox.
The rice paradox is easily proven wrong because..
A grain of rice dose make noise, you just can't hear it. Meaning, 0*1000 dosen't make up the sound, 0.0000001*1000 make up the sound.
Zeno originally worte a book of paradoxes, what happened to it?
Lost to time
What did Achilies do in the beginning of the race that led to the result?
Letting the turtle have a head start
What is the main idea of arrow paradox?
Motion is just an illusion
How do we find information about his paradoxes today?
second hand sources, Plato's Parmenides (opening page)
What is the main idea of this paradox?
Space can be divided into infinity spaces.
By using mordern math, we learn that zeno's paradoxes are...
just mathematical problems and can be solved using calculus.