Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. The theorems are so fundamental that every mathematician, regardless of speciality, can benefit from reading this book. Brazilian, chinese, german, farsi, french, hungarian, italian, japanese, korean, polish, russian, spanish, and turkish. Blagojevic, pavel galashin, nevena palic and gunter m. The authors have done an excellent job choosing topics and proofs that erdos would have appreciated. Throughout, illustrations and figures are used to support the arguments in the main text. It does require some calculus and linear algebra background, but if you have that, you should be able to follow most of the proofs in this book. This book is the fourth edition of aigner and ziegler s attempt to find proofs that erdos would find appealing. A few years ago, we suggested to him to write up a. Our book was supposed to appear in march 1998 as a present to erd. Proofs from the book is a book of mathematical proofs by martin aigner and gunter m. Hofmann springerverlag heidelbergberlin to appear august 1998.
He was enthusiastic about the idea and, characteristically, went to work immediately. The book is dedicated to the mathematician paul erdos, who often referred to the book in which god keeps the most elegant proof of each mathematical theorem. This book is the fourth edition of aigner and zieglers attempt to find proofs that erdos would find appealing. Hardythat there is no permanent place for ugly mathematics. Proofs from the book edition 2 available in hardcover. During a lecture in 1985, erdos said, you dont have to believe in god, but you should believe in the book. The first edition of this book appeared in 1998 it has since been translated into languages. Review of proofs from the book 4th edition by martin aigner and gunter m. Proofs from the book edition 2 by martin aigner, gunter. This revised and enlarged fourth edition of proofs from the book features five new chapters, which treat classical.
The book is dedicated to the mathematician paul erdos, who. Jiri matousek in cooperation with anders bjorner and gunter m. Review of proofs from the book 4th edition by martin aigner and. Martin aigner and gunter ziegler succeeded admirably in putting together a broad collection of theorems that would undoubtedly be in the book of erdos. Our book was supposed to appear in march 1998 as a present to erdos 85th birthday. While we are trying to record pelfect proofs, our exposition isn. Martin aigner and gunter ziegler succeeded admirably in putting together a broad collection of theorems and their proofs that would undoubtedly be in the book of erdos. This revised and enlarged fifth edition features four new chapters, which contain highly original and delightful proofs for classics such as the spectral theorem. This book gives relatively elegant proofs of theorems from many different fields of mathematics, and often gives multiple proofs for the same theorem. Pdf proofs from the book download full pdf book download. After reading proofs from the book by aigner and ziegler in about 2002 and noticing that one of the proofs wasnt optimal, i continued to investigate the.