Name: Proofs From the Book
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Author: Martin Aigner
ISBN: 9783662572641

Type

Physical Book

Author

Martin Aigner

Publisher

Springer Verlag Gmbh

Year

2018

Language

English

Pages

326

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9783662572641

Synopsis "Proofs From the Book "

This revised and enlarged sixth edition of Proofs from THE BOOK features an entirely new chapter on Van der Waerden’s permanent conjecture, as well as additional, highly original and delightful proofs in other chapters.From the citation on the occasion of the 2018 "Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition" “… It is almost impossible to write a mathematics book that can be read and enjoyed by people of all levels and backgrounds, yet Aigner and Ziegler accomplish this feat of exposition with virtuoso style. […] This book does an invaluable service to mathematics, by illustrating for non-mathematicians what it is that mathematicians mean when they speak about beauty.”From the Reviews"... Inside PFTB (Proofs from The Book) is indeed a glimpse of mathematical heaven, where clever insights and beautiful ideas combine in astonishing and glorious ways. There is vast wealth within its pages, one gem after another. ... Aigner and Ziegler... write: "... all we offer is the examples that we have selected, hoping that our readers will share our enthusiasm about brilliant ideas, clever insights and wonderful observations." I do. ... "Notices of the AMS, August 1999"... This book is a pleasure to hold and to look at: ample margins, nice photos, instructive pictures and beautiful drawings ... It is a pleasure to read as well: the style is clear and entertaining, the level is close to elementary, the necessary background is given separately and the proofs are brilliant. ..."LMS Newsletter, January 1999"Martin Aigner and Günter Ziegler succeeded admirably in putting together a broad collection of theorems and their proofs that would undoubtedly be in the Book of Erdös. The theorems are so fundamental, their proofs so elegant and the remaining open questions so intriguing that every mathematician, regardless of speciality, can benefit from reading this book. ... " SIGACT News, December 2011

Martin Aigner

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Martin Aigner (Linz, February 28, 1942 – Berlin, October 11, 2023) was an Austrian mathematician specialized in combinatorics and graph theory. He earned his PhD at the University of Vienna and, since 1974, was a professor at the Freie Universität Berlin, where he played a key role in the development of discrete mathematics and computer science at the institution. Throughout his career, he received accolades such as the Lester R. Ford Award in 1996 and the Leroy P. Steele Prize in 2018, the latter shared with Günter M. Ziegler for their outstanding work in mathematical outreach.

Among his most influential works is Proofs from THE BOOK (1998), co-written with Ziegler and translated into Spanish as El libro de las demostraciones. This book compiles mathematical proofs notable for their elegance and clarity, inspired by Paul Erdős's idea of a divine book containing the best mathematical proofs. Other notable publications by Aigner include Graphentheorie (1984), Diskrete Mathematik (1993), and A Course in Enumeration (2007), all focused on discrete mathematics and combinatorics.

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