From Review of Bio of Tom Stoppard in SF Chronicle by David Kipen--9/1/02

[Richard Fiero]

Bandwraith writes:
>  . . .
>Is this true:
>http://math.cofc.edu/faculty/kasman/MATHFICT/mf115.html

Better than true. Zeno's Paradoxes happen in discrete time 
rather than continuous time and defy our expectation that an 
infinite number of little things cannot have a finite sum, or conversely.
It took calculus to sort out notions of force, acceleration and 
momentum and relate them in a coherent way. Calculus is 
mentioned throughout Pynchon's novels. There's at least one 
obvious mention in M&D and I strongly suggest that it's more 
than a display of erudition and is an important feature of the 
time of the M&D story.