ABSTRACT
In 1870 Cantor proved that representation of a function of one variable by a trigonometric series can be done in only one way. In 1996 Bourgain proved the same thing for spherical convergence and multiple trigonometric series. His proof involves injecting a lot of new ideas into the theory of uniqueness. We give here an exposition of Bourgain’s proof, specialized to the case of dimension 2. Our exposition includes a fairly general method for finding maximal elements without resorting to the Axiom of Choice.
