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Proofs from the Book

by a_imho on 7/21/23, 10:58 AM with 8 comments

• by waldrews on 7/21/23, 5:42 PM

  More relevant to this audience: Algorithms from The Book:

  https://www.amazon.com/Algorithms-BOOK-Kenneth-Lange/dp/1611...

• by jbullock35 on 7/21/23, 1:35 PM

  How much of this book will I be able to grasp, given that my math education stopped with an undergrad course in real analysis?

• by npalli on 7/21/23, 1:02 PM

  Great book, it must be noted that wikipedia lists the first edition from 1998 but it is now in it's sixth edition (2018)

  https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-662-57265-8

• by billfruit on 7/21/23, 6:59 PM

  Is it written for a general audience, with sufficient explanations from an elementary standpoint, discussions on background, why a proof is brilliant, etc, or is it more like a collection of abstruse mathematics papers?

• by bscphil on 7/21/23, 4:57 PM

  > "The Book" in which God keeps the most elegant proof of each mathematical theorem

  > The proofs include: Six proofs of the infinitude of the primes

  ironic