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Martin Aigner
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An edition of Proofs from the book (2014)

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The mathematical heroes of this book are 'perfect proofs': brilliant ideas, clever connections & wonderful observations that bring new insight & surprising perspectives on basic & challenging problems from number theory, geometry, analysis, combinatorics & graph theory. 30 examples are presented.

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English
Pages
308

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Mathematics, Combinatorial analysis, Geometry, Number theory, Global analysis (Mathematics), Computer science, Mathematics, general, Analysis, Computer Science, general

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Table of Contents

Number theory: Six proofs of the infinity of primes ; Bertrand's postulate ; Binomial coefficients are (almost) never powers ; Representing numbers as sums of two squares ; The law of quadratic reciprocity ; Every finite division ring is a field ; The spectral theorem and Hadamard's determinant problem ; Some irrational numbers ; Three times [pi squared]/6
Geometry: Hilbert's third problem : decomposing polyhedra ; Lines in the plane and decompositions of graphs ; The slope problem ; Three applications of Euler's formula ; Cauchy's rigidity theorem ; The Borromean rings don't exist ; Touching simplices ; Every large point set has an obtuse angle ; Borsuk's conjecture
Analysis: Sets, functions, and the continuum hypothesis ; In praise of inequalities ; The fundamental theorem of algebra ; One square and an odd number of triangles ; A theorem of Pólya on polynomials ; On a lemma of Littlewood and Offord ; Cotangent and the Herglotz trick ; Buffon's needle problem
Combinatorics: Pigeon-hole and double counting ; Tiling rectangles ; Three famous theorems on finite sets ; Shuffling cards ; Lattice paths and determinants ; Cayley's formula for the number of trees ; Identities versus bijections ; The finite Kakeya problem ; Completing Latin squares
Graph theory: The Dinitz problem ; Permanents and the power of entropy ; Five-coloring plane graphs ; How to guard a museum ; Turán's graph theorem ; Communicating without errors ; The chromatic number of Kneser graphs ; Of friends and politicians ; Probability makes counting (sometimes) easy.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
510.0
Library of Congress
QA36 .A36 2014, QA1-939

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viii, 308 pages
Number of pages
308

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OL27183878M
ISBN 10
3662442043
ISBN 13
9783662442043
OCLC/WorldCat
884616897

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