Publication

2014 - Springer

Language

English

Word Count

77,000 words, Guess

Page Count

308 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-103662495929
  • ISBN-139783662495926
  • Better World Books9783662495926
  • Open LibraryOL34386247M

Classifications

  • LCCQA1-939QA241-247.5QA

Description

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. For this revised and expanded second edition several chapters have been revised and expanded, and three new chapters have been added.

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Other Editions

  • Proofs from the BookSpringer2014-01-01

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