A Nonmeasurable Set from Coin Flips

DOI10.4169/000298909X477041MaRDI QIDQ3107121zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors A. E. Holroyd, Terry Soo

Publication date 1 January 2012

Published in American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0610705

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classes of sets (Borel fields, (sigma)-rings, etc.), measurable sets, Suslin sets, analytic sets (28A05) Foundations of probability theory (60A99) Integral calculus (educational aspects) (97I50) Probability theory (educational aspects) (97K50)

Abstract: In this note we give an example of a nonmeasurable set in the probability space for an infinite sequence of coin flips. The example arises naturally from the notion of an equivariant function, and serves as a pedagogical illustration of the need for measure theory.

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