The Pea and the Sun
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The Pea and the Sun

A Mathematical Paradox

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The Pea and the Sun

A Mathematical Paradox

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Take an apple and cut it into five pieces. Would you believe that these five pieces can be reassembled in such a fashion so as to create two apples equal in shape and size to the original? Would you believe that you could make something as large as the sun by breaking a pea into a finite number of pieces and putting it back together again? Neither did Leonard Wapner, author of The Pea and the Sun, when he was first introduced to the Banach-Tarski paradox, which asserts exactly such a notion. Written in an engaging style, The Pea and the Sun catalogues the people, events, and mathematics that contributed to the discovery of Banach and Tarski's magical paradox. Wapner makes one of the most interesting problems of advanced mathematics accessible to the non-mathematician.

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Publisher
A K Peters/CRC Press
Year
2005
ISBN
9781439864845
Edition
1
Topic
Mathematics
Subtopic
Mathematics General
Index
Mathematics

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Table of Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction
  9. 1: History: A Cast of Characters
  10. 2: Jigsaw Fallacies and Other Curiosities
  11. 3: Preliminaries
  12. 4: Baby BTs
  13. 5: Statement and Proof of the Theorem
  14. 6: Resolution
  15. 7: The Real World
  16. 8: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index