ProofWiki:Mathematicians/Zeno of Elea

Greek: Ζήνων ὁ Ἐλεάτης.

Pre-Socratic philosopher of southern Italy.

Member of the Eleatic School founded by Parmenides. Aristotle called him the "inventor of the dialectic".

Best known for his paradoxes, which Bertrand Russell described as "immeasurably subtle and profound".

Nationality

Greek, living in Elea, in southern Italy

History

• Born: c. 490 BCE(?), Elea, Lucania (now southern Italy)
• Died: c. 430 or 425 BCE(?), Elea, Lucania (now southern Italy)

Theorems and Definitions

• Zeno's Paradoxes

Published Works

None of Zeno's writings survive.

See Also

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Zeno of Elea": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive

• Eric Temple Bell: Men of Mathematics (1937): Chapter $\text{II}$