Visualizing paradoxical sets

DOI10.1007/S00283-013-9433-1MaRDI QIDQ483351zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Grzegorz Tomkowicz, Stan Wagon

Publication date 17 December 2014

Published in The Mathematical Intelligencer (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-013-9433-1

zbMATH Keywords

Banach-Tarski paradoxHausdorff paradoxparadoxical setSierpiński set

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free nonabelian groups (20E05) Free products of groups, free products with amalgamation, Higman-Neumann-Neumann extensions, and generalizations (20E06) Hyperbolic and elliptic geometries (general) and generalizations (51M10)

Review text

This paper shows how several counterintuitive ideas of set theory, such as the Banach-Tarski paradox and the existence of a certain type of Sierpiński set, can be given concrete interpretations in the hyperbolic plane. The authors use the upper-half plane model of hyperbolic geometry and the Poincaré disk model. The article ends with a conjecture which states that there is no discrete weak Sierpiński set in \(\mathbb R^3\).

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• On some 2-edge-connected homogenous graphs and Cayley graphs with two removable vertices
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• Wolfram Demonstrations

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