Convergence and Limit

Eli Maor
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Eli Maor: Oakland University, Department of Mathematical Sciences

Chapter 3 in To Infinity and Beyond, 1987, pp 17-24 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Central to the development of the calculus were the concepts of convergence and limit, and with these concepts at hand it became at last possible to resolve the ancient paradoxes of infinity which had so much intrigued Zeno. For example, the runner’s paradox is explained by the following observation: By first covering one-half the distance between the runner’s starting and end points, then half the remaining distance, and so on, he will cover a total distance equal to the sum: $$ 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 + 1/16 + \cdots $$

Date: 1987
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4612-5394-5_3

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