Christmas Present for Math Prof

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Christmas Present for Math Prof 2016-12-13 02:24:59 Post No. 8535314
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Christmas Present for Math Prof Anonymous 2016-12-13 02:24:59 Post No. 8535314 [Report]

Hey /sci/, I'm looking for a good christmas present to get my grandpa, he was a math professor at Western Washington University for like 50 years.

I had an idea for one but I'm not sure if anything like it exists.

Are there any books that follow or have similar premises to something like
"Exceedingly Rigorous Mathematical Proofs for Exceedingly Simple Concepts"

Rules: no "What If" by the xkcd dude. Everything else goes.

If all else fails I can always give him my copy of Gödel, Escher, Bach

Anonymous 2016-12-13 02:31:37 Post No.8535332
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics_Made_Difficult

Anonymous 2016-12-13 02:31:45 Post No.8535334
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Anonymous 2016-12-13 02:31:45 Post No.8535334 [Report]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proofs_from_THE_BOOK is an interesting option in this category, but odds are he has read it before.

Anonymous 2016-12-13 02:49:57 Post No.8535367
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Anonymous 2016-12-13 02:49:57 Post No.8535367 [Report]

>>8535314
give him the ol' -1 meme

Anonymous 2016-12-13 02:51:22 Post No.8535371
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Anonymous 2016-12-13 02:51:22 Post No.8535371 [Report]

>>8535332
Wow, this is almost exactly what I was thinking of, unfortunately even a used copy costs more than most of my textbooks.

>>8535334
This looks really fun. He probably has but no harm in getting him a hard copy.

Thanks guys this has been a real help!

Anonymous 2016-12-13 03:18:30 Post No.8535425
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>>8535332
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics_Made_Difficult

just read the reviews on Amazon. Looks great. Too bad it's so much money.

Anonymous 2016-12-13 03:21:29 Post No.8535432
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Anonymous 2016-12-13 03:21:29 Post No.8535432 [Report]

>>8535314
Give him your topology, if you get what I mean?

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