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Re: An easy-to-state and hard-to-prove geometric result
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Apr 20, 2013 9:07 AM
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In article <a0c36328-80c7-4c57-a2b7-89f188d712d7@googlegroups.com>, <pepstein5@gmail.com> wrote:
> If I understood him correctly (note the if), someone told me that Bill > Thurston proved that R^3 can be partitioned into disjoint circles. (Of > course, the number of such circles has to be uncountable.) > I would be interested to know more about this. Does anyone know a reference? > Can anyone say anything about the techniques involved in the proof? If the > statement is wrong, does anyone know the correct statement? > > Thank You, > > Paul Epstein
See this page: http://www.cut-the-knot.org/proofs/tessellation.shtml Hint at the top, solution at the bottom.
-- G. A. Edgar http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/~edgar/
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