Proofs from THE BOOK von Martin Aigner | ISBN 9783662223437

Proofs from THE BOOK

von Martin Aigner und Günter M. Ziegler
Mitwirkende
Autor / AutorinMartin Aigner
Autor / AutorinGünter M. Ziegler
Buchcover Proofs from THE BOOK | Martin Aigner | EAN 9783662223437 | ISBN 3-662-22343-0 | ISBN 978-3-662-22343-7
„... a glimpse of mathematical heaven, where clever insights and beautiful ideas combine in astonishing and glorious ways. There is vast wealth within its pages, one gem after another.“ - Notices of the AMS

Proofs from THE BOOK

von Martin Aigner und Günter M. Ziegler
Mitwirkende
Autor / AutorinMartin Aigner
Autor / AutorinGünter M. Ziegler

The (mathematical) heroes of this book are „perfect proofs“: brilliant ideas, clever connections and wonderful observations that bring new insight and surprising perspectives on basic and challenging problems from Number Theory, Geometry, Analysis, Combinatorics, and Graph Theory.
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.