Overview
An excellent, easy-to-read book for everyone with an interest in mathematics.
Two top researchers have made a big effort and selected a list of mathematical problems which can be solved by elegant, esthetically pleasing proofs.
The result is a book which will be fun for everybody with an interest in mathematics requiring only very little previous knowledge.
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (30 chapters)
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Geometry
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Analysis
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About this book
Thirty beautiful examples are presented here. They are candidates for The Book in which God records the perfect proofs - according to the late Paul Erdös, who himself suggested many of the topics in this collection.
The result is a book which will be fun for everybody with an interest in mathematics, requiring only a very modest (undergraduate) mathematical background.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Proofs from THE BOOK
Authors: Martin Aigner, Günter M. Ziegler
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-22343-7
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1998
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-22343-7Published: 29 June 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 199
Topics: Number Theory, Geometry, Analysis, Combinatorics