Journal of Formalized Reasoning (Oct 2017)

Formal Proof of Banach-Tarski Paradox

  • Daniel de Rauglaudre

DOI
https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1972-5787/6927
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 37 – 49

Abstract

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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.