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There’s a nice chapter on Buffon’s needle problem in “Proofs from THE BOOK”, an Erdős-inspired attempt to collect the most beautiful proofs. You can find a PDF
by lorenzhs 7y ago
There’s a nice chapter on Buffon’s needle problem in “Proofs from THE BOOK”, an Erdős-inspired attempt to collect the most beautiful proofs. You can find a PDF of the entire book easily enough on Google, it’s a good read although I would dispute the beauty of some of the proofs in it.
- targonca 7y ago>although I would dispute the beauty of some of the proofs in it Agree. In my opinion, the proofs in that book are not so much about beauty, rather how one can prove seemingly complex stuff with surprisingly elementary tools.