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The Pea and the Sun (A Mathematical Paradox)
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Product Details
Author:
Leonard M. Wapner
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
232
Publisher:
CRC Press (January 18, 2007)
Language:
English
ISBN-13:
9781568813271
Weight:
11.75oz
Dimensions:
6" x 9"
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TAYLORFRANCIS-TayFran_260513043736269-20260513.xml
Folder:
TAYLORFRANCIS
List Price:
$42.99
Case Pack:
48
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P-CRC
Discount Code:
H
Country of Origin:
United States
Pub Discount:
30
Imprint:
A K Peters/CRC Press
Overview
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.
