Friday, June 1, 2007

War and Peace

Last night, I sat down in my hammock and started reading pg. 985 of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace. This is the classic novel of Russian life at the time of Napolean's empire. I recommend reading the entire text sometime in your life when you have the time to tackle its 1455 pages.



You will probably understand my amazement when I tell you that Tolstoy started Book 11, Chapter I by discussing Zeno's paradox of The Tortoise and Achilles!!!!!!!



He then goes on to discuss the implications of calculus on the study of history. Some of you might find these three pages quite interesting. You can read this short chapter here.



I would be interested to hear your thoughts on this as, I imagine, would Mr. Janke.

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