The creation of the art of dialectic is credited to Zeno of Elea, the philosophical champion of Parmenides’ claim that the essence of reality is One and unchanging. https://www.worldhistory.org/article/172/the-art-of-dialectic--zeno-of-elea/ #History #GreekPhilosophy #Pre-SocraticPhilosophers #ZenoofElea

> .. to be disdainful of the great social task of education is as stupid as it is wicked. It is the end of progress in knowledge. No society, least of all so intricate and mechanized a society as ours, is safe in the hands of a few clever people. The mathematician [and the hacker] and the plain man each need the other.
#LancelotHogben in #MathematicsForTheMillions talks about the importance of #Notation too. #Zeno #ZenoOfElea #AchillesTurtleParadox