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Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991000830839707536

Autore

Laczkovich, Miklós

Titolo

Conjecture and proof / Miklós Laczkovich

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, DC : Mathematical Association of America, c2001

ISBN

0883857227

Descrizione fisica

118 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

Collana

Classroom resource materials

Classificazione

AMS 00A35

AMS 00A07

LC QA9.54.L33

Disciplina

511.3

Soggetti

Proof theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index

Nota di contenuto

Pt. I: Proofs of impossibility, proofs of nonexistence ; Proofs of irrationality ; Elements of the theory of geometric constructions ; Constructible regular polygons ; Some basic facts about linear spaces and fields ; Algebraic and transcendental numbers ; Cauchy's functional equation ; Geometric decompositions

Pt. II: Constructions, proofs of existence ; Pigeonhole principle ; Liouville numbers ; Countable and uncountable sets ; Isometries of R̂n ; Problem of invariant measures ; Banach-Tarski paradox ; Open and closed sets in R: the Cantor set ; Peano curve ; Borel sets ; Diagonal method