Proofs from the Book (en.wikipedia.org)

72 points by a_imho 2y ago ↗ HN

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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

jbullock35 2y ago ↗

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

zeroonetwothree 2y ago ↗

Pretty much all of it

dhosek 2y ago ↗

I’m not entirely sure of that, and it will take some effort to follow some of the proofs, but it will be worthwhile. I think this would be a good book for a technically-oriented book club to discuss, taking on one proof a month.

bscphil 2y ago ↗

> "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

shadowiq 2y ago ↗

Don't they know they can just pick the maximal one?

waldrews 2y ago ↗

More relevant to this audience: Algorithms from The Book:

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

billfruit 2y ago ↗

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?