Zeno of Elea

about 490 BC - about 425 BC

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Zeno of Elea was a Greek philosopher famous for posing so-called paradoxes which challenged mathematicians' view of the real world for many centuries.
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List of References (35 books/articles)

Mathematicians born in the same country

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  1. Astroseti (A Spanish translation of this biography)
  2. The Catholic Encyclopedia
  3. Kevin Brown
  4. The big view
  1. Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  2. S M Cohen (Zeno's paradoxes)
  3. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Zeno's paradoxes)
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