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Formal Proof of Banach-Tarski Paradox

Authors :
Daniel de Rauglaudre
Source :
Journal of Formalized Reasoning, Vol 10, Iss 1, Pp 37-49 (2017)
Publication Year :
2017
Publisher :
University of Bologna, 2017.

Abstract

Banach-Tarski Paradox states that a ball in 3D space is equidecomposable with twice itself, i.e. we can break a ball into a finite number of pieces, and with these pieces, build two balls having the same size as the initial ball. This strange result is actually a Theorem which was proven in 1924 by Stefan Banach and Alfred Tarski using the Axiom of Choice.We present here a formal proof in Coq of this theorem.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
19725787
Volume :
10
Issue :
1
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
Journal of Formalized Reasoning
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.79c728cf28da45ed9a21e19dc79504d0
Document Type :
article
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1972-5787/6927