Proofs from The Book
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Proofs from The Book
Martin Aigner, Günter M. Ziegler
7 people recommended it in 3 threads, 2018–2020.
What people on Hacker News said
This is a brief survey of a selection of especially elegant and beautiful proofs. This is partly valuable for the immediate facts you'll learn-- I have surprised coworkers with a solution to a seemingly difficult problem that closely mirrors something in here more than once-- but is mostly about understanding mathematical standards of beauty and why proofs might be structured the way they are.
Proofs from the BOOK by Aigner and Ziegler is a cross-section of some of the nicest proofs in reasonably elementary (read: undergrad-comprehensible) maths.
He included "proofs from the book" which are suppose to be the most elegant proofs.
Where it comes up
- Ask HN: Recommend a maths book for a teenager? 2020 · 3 recommendations
- Classic Mathematics Books for Lifelong Learners 2019 · 3 recommendations
- The Best Textbooks on Every Subject 2018 · 1 recommendation