Timeline for How to explain the concentration-of-measure phenomenon intuitively?
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| Jun 28, 2015 at 0:58 | comment | added | Joseph O'Rourke | This view nicely explains why the phenomenon is definitely not present in $\mathbb{R}^3$. | |
| Jun 27, 2015 at 22:59 | comment | added | Joseph O'Rourke | Very nice description in terms of zones! All that is needed to understand this is the behavior of $r^{d-1}$. Which, as @foliations says, is the key ($t^n$ in f's version). | |
| Jun 27, 2015 at 20:18 | comment | added | Andreas Blass | It's debatable whether my answer here is really different from the one posted by @foliations while I was writing mine, or whether it's more intuitive than a standard proof. But it uses fewer mathematical symbols and so has a chance of being verbally explainable. | |
| Jun 27, 2015 at 20:13 | history | answered | Andreas Blass | CC BY-SA 3.0 |