The Pea and the Sun : A Mathematical Paradox
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1568813279
ISBN-13
9781568813271
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint
A K Peters
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 18th, 2007
Print length
232 Pages
Weight
354 grams
Dimensions
23.00 x 15.40 x 1.40 cms
Product Classification:
Mathematical logic
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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.
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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