Book ID: CBB000550477

The Pea and the Sun: A Mathematical Paradox (2005)

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Wapner, Leonard M. (Author)


A.K. Peters


Publication Date: 2005
Physical Details: xiv + 218 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description A history of the Banach-Tarski paradox.


Citation URI
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Authors & Contributors
Frost-Arnold, Gregory G.
Aho, Tuomo
Allori, Valia
Alonso, Enrique
Cobos Bueno, José M.
Duda, Roman
Journals
British Journal for the History of Science
Historia Mathematica
History and Philosophy of Logic
Llull: Revista de la Sociedad Española de Historia de las Ciencias y de las Técnicas
Mathematical Intelligencer
Mathematische Semesterberichte
Publishers
American Mathematical Society
University of Pittsburgh
Guaraldi
Open Court
Oxford University Press
Walter de Gruyter
Concepts
Mathematics
Logic
Paradox (logic)
Philosophy of mathematics
Philosophy
Set theory
People
Tarski, Alfred
Banach, Stefan
Carnap, Rudolf
Russell, Bertrand Arthur William
Quine, Willard Van Orman
Allais, Maurice
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
19th century
20th century, late
21st century
Medieval
Places
Poland
Vienna (Austria)
Boston (Massachusetts, U.S.)
Institutions
Harvard University
Vienna Circle
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