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Winter 2011

Charming Proofs: A Journey Into Elegant Mathematics

Roger Nelsen, professor emeritus of mathematics, co-edits this useful resource for those who teach calculus in high schools or colleges. The authors present a collection of remarkable proofs in elementary mathematics, which they find exceptionally elegant, full of ingenuity, and succinct.

Mathematical Association of America, 2010. 295 pages. $60.