Extreme Proofs I: The Irrationality of √2

• Published in 2013
• Added on 2020-04-13

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.

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@article{ExtremeProofsITheIrrationalityof2,
	key = {ExtremeProofsITheIrrationalityof2},
	type = {article},
	title = {Extreme Proofs I: The Irrationality of √2},
	author = {John H. Conway and Joseph Shipman and John H. Conway and Joseph Shipman},
	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.},
	comment = {},
	date_added = {2020-04-13},
	date_published = {2013-10-09},
	urls = {https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00283-013-9373-9,https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00283-013-9373-9.pdf},
	collections = {About proof},
	url = {https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00283-013-9373-9 https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00283-013-9373-9.pdf},
	year = 2013,
	urldate = {2020-04-13},
	publisher = {Springer US},
	fulltext_html_url = {https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00283-013-9373-9},
	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}
}