Rajesh Pitty

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The Banach–Tarski Paradox, for example, says you can, in principle, take a sphere and cut it up in such a way that you can reassemble it to form two identical spheres each the same size as the original one. Because the mathematics is correct, the Banach–Tarski result had to be accepted as a fact, even though it defies our imagination.
Introduction to Mathematical Thinking
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