Zeno's Paradox
February 03, 2004 - Answering "Stupid" Questions

As I've gone through and started to rediscover mathematics, I continually run into questions that I either didn't care to ask before or was so rushed with my problem sets (thank you Princeton) that I didn't have the spare brain cycles to spare thinking about them or formulating them. One question that keeps popping up is why division by zero is such an apparent hole in basic arithmetic and algebra. So, this morning, I looked it up at Mathworld. I can't say how much I really like that site. I've spent hours hopping from topic to topic simply exploring. The author and sponsors of MathWorld have my admiration for a site well done.

Posted by br284 at 08:16 AM

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"author and sponsors". Very good you divided them.
Actually the sponsors (Mathematica by Wolfram research) simply bought the e-version of the book written by some german student. When he sold the rights to publish it to Wolfram, the university he was enrolled in at the moment went to court for Wolfram. The sum Wolfram payed out was never disclosed.

~av

Posted by Alexei Voitylov on February 8, 2004 11:58 AM
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