The Motion Paradox - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Motion Paradox write by Joseph Mazur. This book was released on 2007. The Motion Paradox available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Traces the epic history of Greek philosopher Zeno's yet-unsolved paradox of motion, citing the contributions of top minds to the scientific community's understanding of the elusive basic structure of time and space.
Zeno's Paradoxes
Zeno's Paradoxes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Zeno's Paradoxes write by Wesley C. Salmon. This book was released on 2001-01-01. Zeno's Paradoxes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A reprint of the Bobbs-Merrill edition of 1970. These essays lead the reader through the land of the wonderful shrinking genie to the warehouse where the infinity machines are kept. By careful examination of a lamp that is switched on and off infinitely many times, or the workings of a machine that prints out an infinite decimal expansion of pi, we begin to understand how it is possible for Achilles to overtake the tortoise. The concepts that form the basis of modern science---space, time, motion, change, infinity---are examined and explored in this edition. Includes an updated bibliography.
Zeno's Paradox
Zeno's Paradox - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Zeno's Paradox write by Joseph Mazur. This book was released on 2008-03-25. Zeno's Paradox available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The fascinating story of an ancient riddle and what it reveals about the nature of time and space Three millennia ago, the Greek philosopher Zeno constructed a series of logical paradoxes to prove that motion is impossible. Today, these paradoxes remain on the cutting edge of our investigations into the fabric of space and time. Zeno's Paradox uses the motion paradox as a jumping-off point for an exploration of the twenty-five-hundred-year quest to uncover the true nature of the universe. From Galileo to Einstein to Stephen Hawking, some of the greatest minds in history have tackled the problem and made spectacular breakthroughs, but through it all, the paradox of motion remains.
The Universal Book of Mathematics
The Universal Book of Mathematics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Universal Book of Mathematics write by David Darling. This book was released on 2008-04-21. The Universal Book of Mathematics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Praise for David Darling The Universal Book of Astronomy "A first-rate resource for readers and students of popular astronomy and general science. . . . Highly recommended." -Library Journal "A comprehensive survey and . . . a rare treat." -Focus The Complete Book of Spaceflight "Darling's content and presentation will have any reader moving from entry to entry." -The Observatory magazine Life Everywhere "This remarkable book exemplifies the best of today's popular science writing: it is lucid, informative, and thoroughly enjoyable." -Science Books & Films "An enthralling introduction to the new science of astrobiology." -Lynn Margulis Equations of Eternity "One of the clearest and most eloquent expositions of the quantum conundrum and its philosophical and metaphysical implications that I have read recently." -The New York Times Deep Time "A wonderful book. The perfect overview of the universe." -Larry Niven
The Concept of Motion in Ancient Greek Thought
The Concept of Motion in Ancient Greek Thought - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Concept of Motion in Ancient Greek Thought write by Barbara M. Sattler. This book was released on 2021-10-31. The Concept of Motion in Ancient Greek Thought available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the birth of the scientific understanding of motion. It investigates which logical tools and methodological principles had to be in place to give a consistent account of motion, and which mathematical notions were introduced to gain control over conceptual problems of motion. It shows how the idea of motion raised two fundamental problems in the 5th and 4th century BCE: bringing together being and non-being, and bringing together time and space. The first problem leads to the exclusion of motion from the realm of rational investigation in Parmenides, the second to Zeno's paradoxes of motion. Methodological and logical developments reacting to these puzzles are shown to be present implicitly in the atomists, and explicitly in Plato who also employs mathematical structures to make motion intelligible. With Aristotle we finally see the first outline of the fundamental framework with which we conceptualise motion today.
