# Extreme Proofs I: The Irrationality of √2

• Published in 2013
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Mathematicians often ask, what is the best proof'' of something, and indeed Erd\"{o}s used to speak of Proofs from the Book,'' meaning, of course, God’s book. Aigner and Ziegler (1998) have attempted to reconstruct some of this Book. Here we take a different, and more tolerant approach.

## Other information

publisher
Springer US
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journal
The Mathematical Intelligencer
issn
1866-7414
volume
35
issue
3
identifier
doi:10.1007/s00283-013-9373-9
doi
10.1007/s00283-013-9373-9
pages
2-7

### BibTeX entry

@article{ExtremeProofsITheIrrationalityof2,
title = {Extreme Proofs I: The Irrationality of √2},
abstract = {Mathematicians often ask, what is the best proof'' of something,  and  indeed  Erd\"{\{}o{\}}s  used  to  speak  of Proofs from the Book,'' meaning, of course, God’s book. Aigner and Ziegler (1998) have attempted to reconstruct some of this Book. Here we take a different, and more tolerant approach.},
year = 2013,
author = {John H. Conway and Joseph Shipman and John H. Conway and Joseph Shipman},
comment = {},
urldate = {2020-04-13},
publisher = {Springer US},
}