the banach-tarski paradox and amenability

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比利时vs摩洛哥足彩 ,
university of california san diego

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food for thought seminar

michele d'adderio

ucsd, graduate student

abstract:

we discuss how to cut up a pea into finitely many pieces that can be rearranged to form a ball the size of the sun (but don't try this at home!), and how this leads to the notion of amenability. we give also a proof of tarski's theorem, a gem in mathematics.

april 17, 2008

11:00 am

ap&m b412