Directory of Zeno of Elea Resources

Zeno of Elea, born c. 488 BCE was a disciple of Parmenides. He is mostly known for his paradoxes of motion, e.g., Achilles and the Tortoise.

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Interactive Real Analysis: Zeno of Elea

http://www.mathcs.org/analysis/reals/history/zeno.html
Reviews the legacy and what is known of the life of this Presocratic thinker. Summarizes Zeno's four most famous paradoxes.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Zeno's Paradoxes

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/paradox-zeno/
Discusses the paradoxes of Zeno of Elea, for example, Achilles and the Tortoise. By Nick Huggett.
Zeno of Elea

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15756b.htm
Article from the Catholic Encyclopedia.
Zeno's Paradox of the Race Course

http://faculty.washington.edu/smcohen/320/zeno1.htm
Thoughtful lecture notes for discussing this paradox, presented by S. Marc Cohen.
Zeno's Paradox of the Tortoise

http://platonicrealms.com/encyclopedia/Zenos-Paradox-of-the-Tortoise-and-Achilles
An article in the Platonic Realms.
Zeno’s Paradoxes

http://www.truthawakens.com/zeno.asp
Review to Zeno's paradoxes.

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