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Formal Proof of Banach-Tarski Paradox
- Source :
- Journal of Formalized Reasoning, Vol 10, Iss 1, Pp 37-49 (2017)
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- University of Bologna, 2017.
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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.
- Subjects :
- Electronic computers. Computer science
QA75.5-76.95
Analytic mechanics
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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