Ham sandwich theorem
Teorema del sándwich de jamón
- Date
- 1938 (Steinhaus/Banach) / 1942 (Stone-Tukey) · confidence high
- Place
- Lwów (Lviv), Lviv Oblast, Ukraine
- Credited to
- Hugo Steinhaus and Stefan Banach
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What was discovered
Measure-theory result stating that, given n measurable objects in n-dimensional Euclidean space, a single hyperplane always exists that bisects each of them exactly; posed by Hugo Steinhaus and proved by Stefan Banach.
What it led to
- Later generalisation as the Stone–Tukey theorem
- Applications in discrete geometry and computer science
- A celebrated example from the Lwów School of Mathematics