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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 xvi, 251 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Series Encyclopedia of mathematics and its applications ; v. 24
Encyclopedia of mathematics and its applications ; v. 24
Contents Machine derived contents note: Part I. Paradoxical Decompositions, or the Nonexistence of Finitely Additive Measures: 1. Introduction -- 2. The Hausdorff Paradox -- 3. The Banach-Tarski Paradox: duplication spheres and balls -- 4. Locally commutative actions: minimizing the number of pieces in a paradoxical decomposition -- 5. Higher dimensions and non-Euclidean spaces -- 6. Free groups of large rank: getting a continuum of spheres from one -- 7. Paradoxes in low dimensions -- 8. The semi-group of equideomposability types -- Part II. Finitely Additive Measures, or the Nonexistence of Paradoxical Decompositions: 9. Transition -- 10. Measures in groups -- 11. Applications of amenability: Marczewski measures and exotic measures -- 12. Growth conditions in groups and supramenability -- 13. The role of the axiom of choice
Analysis Set theory
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 234-245
Notes Encyclopedia of mathematics and its applications no:24 0953-4806
Subject Banach-Tarski paradox.
Decomposition (Mathematics)
Measure theory.
LC no. 84016986
ISBN 0521302447