1987 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Convergence and Limit
verfasst von : Eli Maor
Erschienen in: To Infinity and Beyond
Verlag: Birkhäuser Boston
Enthalten in: Professional Book Archive
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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: $$ 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 + 1/16 + \cdots $$