|
Uses of Zeno's "Achilles Paradox" in Historical Geology
|
ABSTRACT
The Greek philosopher Zeno put forward a paradox that Achilles would never be able to overtake a tortoise in a foot race if the tortoise was given a head start. The Achilles paradox is an example of the summation of an infinite series that always approaches, but never reaches, unity. A similar paradox can occur when teaching students about intermediate forms between any two taxa in an evolutionary lineage. While the mathematical solution to the paradox is simple enough, the concept of the paradox plays a role in comparing gradual and punctuated modes of evolution. The discovery of a ...
|
For Anna Akhmatova.(Poem)
Magazine article from: Prairie Schooner
; For Anna Akhmatova Who had been in love with her that summer? Did it matter? The...howled in indignation, more like the peasant she had come to resemble than Anna Comnena or Cleopatra or the ikon of words who was asked by other women at the prison...
|
|
Women of Byzantium.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Historian
; ...imperial wife, and the historian Anna Comnena as a "passionate voice." In part...218). Yet Connor herself records Anna Comnena's condemnation of "the scandal...was noticed by this reviewer is of Anna for her "snobbish attitude" in...
|
|
Books in Brief
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...historian with a secret obsession for 11th century writer Anna Comnena, murders his mistress and vanishes. Are the two linked...fabulous they are. The history of the First Crusade and Comnena, whom Kristeva characterizes as the first major female...
|
|
Page turners; Murder and intrigue span the globe, from Byzantium to Burundi. Who's guilty? Reviewer Yvonne Zipp is on the case.(FEATURES)(WEEKEND)
Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor
; ...historian with a secret obsession for 11th-century writer Anna Comnena murders his mistress and vanishes. Are the two linked...are. The history of the first Crusade and the life of Comnena, whom Kristeva characterizes as the first major female...
|
 "The Racing Post (London, England)")
|
Bloodstock Desk: maiden winner of the day.(Sports)
Newspaper article from: The Racing Post (London, England)
; ...modern breeding take heart; Goslar's got it. Anna Of Brunswick's siblings include Group 3 mile-and-a-half winner Anno Luce, Anna Comnena, dam of the smart Sadlers Wings, and Anna Matrushka, whose progeny include Annaba...
|
|
|
Flat Stable Tour - Brian Meehan: Ready to build on best-ever start.(Sports)
Newspaper article from: The Racing Post (London, England)
; ...enough when he appears at Brighton on Thursday. He'll never set the world alight, but he'll win. Gipsy Anna b f Marju - Anna Comnena She won both her races last season, at Haydock and Newbury, then picked up an injury. At this moment she...
|
|
Julia Kristeva, Murder in Byzantium.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Comparatist
; ...and, more strangely, that he had fallen in love with Anna Comnena, the twelfth-century Byzantine princess and the main...detective (75); and other characters, Sebastian and Anna, can also be seen as doubles of the author. In short...
|
|
|
The Orphans of Byzantium: Child Welfare in the Christian Empire.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Historian
; ...child welfare in the Byzantine empire, the author quotes Anna Comnena on three twelfth-century strategies for the care of...orphanages. What follows is "an extended commentary on Anna's two-sentence passage," covering the whole millennium...
|
|
|
The Illyrians.
Magazine article from: The Historian
; ...their early history down to the Roman conquest; and "Roman Illyrians," taking the story from the Roman Republic to Anna Comnena. It is all carefully documented, with numerous references to primary sources and to modern scholarship. Misprints...
|
|
Byzantium: The Decline and Fall.
Magazine article from: Commonweal
; ...probably, after Justinian, the Eastern emperor best known to most readers, thanks to the writings of his daughter, Anna Comnena. Alexius was a genuinely heroic figure and he did much to resuscitate the empire after Manzikert and to defend it from...
|
Find more facts and information related to the
article "Uses of Zeno's "Achilles Paradox" in Historical ..."
