Conjecture and proof / Miklós Laczkovich.
| Author/creator | Laczkovich, Miklós |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Washington, DC : Mathematical Association of America, ©2001. |
| Description | 118 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Publisher description |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents |
| Subjects |
| Series | Classroom resource materials Classroom resource materials (Unnumbered) ^A582258 |
| Contents | 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 Rn̂ -- Problem of invariant measures -- Banach-Tarski paradox -- Open and closed sets in R: the Cantor set -- Peano curve -- Borel sets -- Diagonal method. |
| General note | Includes index. |
| LCCN | 2001095773 |
| ISBN | 0883857227 |
| ISBN | 9780883857229 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | QA9.54 .L33 2001 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |