By Martin Aigner, Günter M. Ziegler, Karl H. Hofmann

This revised and enlarged 5th version positive aspects 4 new chapters, which include hugely unique and pleasant proofs for classics reminiscent of the spectral theorem from linear algebra, a few newer jewels just like the non-existence of the Borromean jewelry and different surprises.

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"Martin Aigner and Günter Ziegler succeeded admirably in placing jointly a large number of theorems and their proofs that may definitely be within the ebook of Erdös. The theorems are so basic, their proofs so dependent and the rest open questio

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VAN DER PORTEN: A proof that Euler missed . Apery's proof of the irrationality of ((3). An informal report, Math. Intelligencer 1 (1979), 195203. [9] T. J. RANSFORD: An elementary proof of E;'" ~ Summer 1982, 3-5. = ~2, Eureka No. 42, [10] T. RIVOAL: La fonction Zeta de Riemann prend une infinite de valeurs irrationnelles aux entiers impairs, Comptes Rendus de l' Academie des Sciences (Paris), Ser. I Mathematique, 331 (2000),267-270. " Hilbert's third problem: decomposing polyhedra Chapter 7 In his legendary address to the International Congress of Mathematicians at Paris in 1900 David Hilbert asked - as the third of his twenty-three problems - to specify "two tetrahedra oJ equal ba es alld equal altitudes which call ill 110 IVa)' be plit illfo congruent tetrahedra, alld which canl10t be combined II ith COli ruen!

N=3 3 lope n=6 6 lope 71=4 4 lope n=7 6 I pe r n=3 3 lope n= 4 lope n= lpe n=6 6 lope n=7 6 I pe After some attempts at finding configurations with fewer slopes you might conjecture - as Scott did in 1970 - the following theorem. The rem. lfn 2: 3 point ill the plalle do 1I0t lie on aile illgle line. tlleT! they derermille at lea r n - 1 differelll lope. where equality i po ible 0111 , iJn i odd alld n 2: 5. Our examples above - the drawings represent the first few configurations in two infinite sequences of examples - show that the theorem as stated is best possible: for any odd n 2: 5 there is a configuration with n points that determines exactly n - 1 different slopes, and for any other n 2: 3 we have a configuration with exactly n slopes.

652341 /: 625314 (4) A touching move is a move that reverses some string that is adjacent to the central barrier, but does not cross it. For example, ~ 1 A touching move 4 1 is a touching move. Geometrically, a touching move corresponds to the slope of a line of the configuration that has exactly m points on one side, and hence at most m - 2 points on the other side. Moves that are neither touching nor crossing will be called ordinary moves. For this 7fl = 213:546 --+ 213:564 = 7f2 ° is an example.

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