Timeline of Limits — Math Arcade

c. 450 BCE

Zeno of Elea

The present boundary paradox. The arrow that never moves. Time divided to nothing.

c. 380 BCE

Plato

The cave allegory. Appearance vs reality. The first map-territory problem.

c. 3rd century BCE

Buddhist Canon

Anicca — impermanence as the first truth of existence.

c. 400

Augustine

"What then is time? If no one asks me, I know. If I wish to explain it, I do not know."

1689

John Locke

Memory-based personal identity. You are what you remember.

1739

David Hume

The self as a bundle of perceptions. No fixed core.

1781

Immanuel Kant

Noumenon vs phenomenon. The thing-in-itself is forever behind the veil.

1807

Hegel

Dialectical progress. History as self-correcting system.

1889

Henri Bergson

Lived time vs clock time. Duration cannot be measured.

1900

David Hilbert

23 problems. The 10th: can we decide Diophantine solvability? (No.)

1927

Martin Heidegger

Being and Time. Existence as being-toward-death.

1931

Kurt Gödel

Incompleteness. Any sufficiently powerful system contains truths it cannot prove.

1936

Alan Turing

The halting problem. No algorithm can predict all algorithms.

1963

Hannah Arendt

The banality of evil. Responsibility dissolves inside systems.

1967

Jacques Derrida

Différance. Presence always deferred. Meaning never fully arrives.

1970

Yuri Matiyasevich

DPRM theorem. Arithmetic itself is undecidable.

1981

Jean Baudrillard

Simulacra and Simulation. The map replaces the territory.

2026

The Rondanini Arcade

Unified experiential gallery of limits. Mathematical, human, societal, perceptual, temporal — curated as one navigable museum.