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.
Karpińska, Karolina
Diestel, Joe
Biagioli, Francesca
Sauer, Tilman
Sandu, Gabriel
Journals
The Review of Modern Logic
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science
Mathematische Semesterberichte
Mathematical Intelligencer
Publishers
Walter de Gruyter
Oxford University Press
Open Court
Guaraldi
University of Pittsburgh
American Mathematical Society
Concepts
Mathematics
Paradox (logic)
Logic
Philosophy of mathematics
Philosophy
Mathematicians
People
Tarski, Alfred
Banach, Stefan
Russell, Bertrand Arthur William
Carnap, Rudolf
Quine, Willard Van Orman
Ulam, Stanislaw Marcin
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
21st century
20th century, late
19th century
Medieval
Places
Poland
Boston (Massachusetts, U.S.)
Vienna (Austria)
Institutions
Harvard University
Vienna Circle
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