Carroll Paradox/Historical Note
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Historical Note on Carroll Paradox
The Carroll Paradox was originally presented by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, writing under the name Lewis Carroll.
He presented it as a whimsical conversation between Achilles and the tortoise he had been racing in the Achilles Paradox.
Sources
- 1979: Douglas R. Hofstadter: Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid: Two-Part Invention, quoting What the Tortoise Said to Achilles by Lewis Carroll
- 1989: Ephraim J. Borowski and Jonathan M. Borwein: Dictionary of Mathematics ... (previous) ... (next): Achilles paradox: 2.