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- From: isaacs@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Stan Isaacs)
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 06:51:43 GMT
- Subject: Re: Banach-Tarski (_NOT_ Re: Bayes' theorem and QM)
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- >
- > What would really help me at this point is if someone
- > could email me a decent explanation of this (or at least
- > a direct pointer to a sufficient reference):
-
- The clearest discussion I know is the article "The Banach-Tarski
- Theorem", by Robert M. French, in the Fall, 1988 issue of The
- Mathematical INtelligencer, Vol 10, No. 4, pp. 21-28. It was the
- first article that made clear to me (as a non-mathematician) just what
- was involved in the proof, how it worked, what it meant, etc.
-
- I would expect the book "The Banach-Tarski Paradox", by Stan Wagon, to
- be even better for a mathematician. I understand that the first few
- chapters are "...an entertaining and lucid introduction to the "paradox"
- which is perfectly accessible to any graduate student. Furthermore,
- the book as a whole is an in-depth guide to the subject and will
- probably be the standard text for many years." (quoted from
- R.J.Gardner in a letter to MI in Spring, 89.)
-
- -- Stan Isaacs
- -- isaacs@corp.hp.com
-