The pea and the sun : a mathematical paradox / Leonard M. Wapner.
The pea and the sun : a mathematical paradox / Leonard M. Wapner.
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Wellesley, Mass. : A K Peters, 2005.
Date
2005.
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N511.322/5
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English
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p. cm.
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1. History : a cast of characters -- Georg Cantor - the founder of modern set theory -- Stefan Banach and Alfred Tarski -- Kurt Godel - the consistency of the axiom of choice -- Paul Cohen - the independence of the axiom of choice -- 2. Jigsaw fallacies and other curiosities -- Paradoxes and antinom...
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Wellesley, Mass. : A K Peters, 2005.
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Massachusetts
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2005.
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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...
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The pea and the sun : a mathematical paradox / Leonard M. Wapner.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N511.322/5
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74VKqpLk4XgM
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1568812132
9781568812137
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511.322
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991020154969702626
