The Banach-Tarski paradox:

The Banach-Tarski paradox is a most striking mathematical construction: it asserts that a solid ball may be taken apart into finitely many pieces that can be rearranged using rigid motions to form a ball twice as large as the original. This volume explores the consequences of the paradox for measure...

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Beteilige Person: Wagon, S.
Format: E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1985
Schriftenreihe:Encyclopedia of mathematics and its applications volume 24
Links:https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511609596
Zusammenfassung:The Banach-Tarski paradox is a most striking mathematical construction: it asserts that a solid ball may be taken apart into finitely many pieces that can be rearranged using rigid motions to form a ball twice as large as the original. This volume explores the consequences of the paradox for measure theory and its connections with group theory, geometry, and logic. It unifies the results of contemporary research on the paradox and presents several new results including some unusual paradoxes in hyperbolic space. It also provides up-to-date proofs and discusses many unsolved problems.
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 251 Seiten)
ISBN:9780511609596