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Author Wagon, S

Title The Banach-Tarski paradox / Stan Wagon
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1985

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 251 pages) : illustrations
Series Encyclopedia of mathematics and its applications ; v. 24
Encyclopedia of mathematics and its applications ; v. 24.
Contents pt. I. Paradoxical decompositions, or, The nonexistence of finitely additive measures -- pt. II. Finitely additive measures, or, The nonexistence of paradoxical decompositions
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-245) and index
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Subject Banach-Tarski paradox.
Measure theory.
Decomposition (Mathematics)
MATHEMATICS -- Set Theory.
Banach-Tarski paradox
Decomposition (Mathematics)
Measure theory
Banach-Tarskisches Paradoxon
Mesure, théorie de la.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780511609596
0511609590
9781107087569
1107087562