{"product_id":"proofs-from-the-book-hardcover","title":"Proofs from the Book - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMartin Aigner\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eKarl H. Hofmann\u003c\/b\u003e (Illustrator), \u003cb\u003eGünter M. Ziegler\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis revised and enlarged sixth edition of \u003ci\u003eProofs from THE BOOK\u003c\/i\u003e features an entirely new chapter on Van der Waerden's permanent conjecture, as well as additional, highly original and delightful proofs in other chapters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the citation on the occasion of the 2018 \"Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003e\"... 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.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Reviews\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"... 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. ... \"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotices of the AMS, August 1999\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"... 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. ...\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLMS Newsletter, January 1999\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"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. ...\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSIGACT News, December 2011\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis revised and enlarged sixth edition of \u003ci\u003eProofs from THE BOOK\u003c\/i\u003e features an entirely new chapter on Van der Waerden's permanent conjecture, as well as additional, highly original and delightful proofs in other chapters.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the citation on the occasion of the 2018 \"Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003e\"... 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.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Reviews\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"... 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. ... \"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotices of the AMS, August 1999\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"... 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. ...\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLMS Newsletter, January 1999\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"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 fromreading this book. ... \"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSIGACT News, December 2011\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMartin Aigner received his Ph.D. from the University of Vienna and has been professor of mathematics at the Freie Universität Berlin since 1974. He has published in various fields of combinatorics and graph theory and is the author of several monographs on discrete mathematics, among them the Springer books \u003ci\u003eCombinatorial Theory\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Course on Enumeration\u003c\/i\u003e. Martin Aigner is a recipient of the 1996 Lester R. Ford Award for mathematical exposition of the Mathematical Association of America MAA.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGünter M. Ziegler received his Ph.D. from M.I.T. and has been professor of mathematics in Berlin - first at TU Berlin, now at Freie Universität - since 1995. He has published in discrete mathematics, geometry, topology, and optimization, including the \u003ci\u003eLectures on Polytopes\u003c\/i\u003e with Springer, as well as \"Do I Count? Stories from Mathematics\". Günter M. Ziegler is a recipient of the 2006 Chauvenet Prize of the MAA for his expository writing and the 2008 Communicator award ofthe German Science Foundation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMartin Aigner and Günter M. Ziegler have started their work on \u003ci\u003eProofs from THE BOOK\u003c\/i\u003e in 1995 together with Paul Erdös. 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