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The Cauchy-Schwarz Master Class: An Introduction to the Art of Mathematical Inequalities (MAA Problem Books)

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  • Series: MAA Problem Books
  • Paperback: 318 pages
  • Publisher: The Mathematical Association of America (April 26, 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 052154677X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0521546775
  • Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.7 x 9 inches
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74 of 75 people found the following review helpful
Wonderful Book
By ktrmes on August 20, 2004
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I rate this book with FIVE STARS *****
Somehow, the review rating software keeps changing the rating to two stars which is incorrect -- again I must emphasize it is FIVE STARS ****.
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As might be expected from the title, Steele's book includes an in depth exploration of the Cauchy Schwarz. It, however, includes so much more -- for example, many, many useful inequalities are set forth in its pages. But even its richness in range and number of inequalities (and equalities) is secondary to Prof. Steele's method of explication. For the real fruit of this book is the techniques and confidence built by the exercises and exposure to the examples. The exercises feed and bolster confidence in approching or deriving familiar and more importantly, never-before-seen inequalities, a confidence which grows with each page and exercise. Techniques that might normally only accrete after years of experience in the course of undergraduate and graduate mathematics courses are set forth one after another. On top of that, this is one of that handful of mathematics books that you can read almost like a novel. It's so readable and rewarding/interesting and engaging that when people have asked me what I have been reading lately, I can answer with a good deal of pride and satisfaction: "a book on the Cauchy Schwarz inequality" -- which I never said about Royden, etc. These techniques are vital for many types of research -- applied mathematics, CS, economics, statistics, (and competitions) to name a few -- in all of these areas finding bounds can play a central role in research. Well worth every penny.

A 2008 Addendum -- I have had this book well over three years now, and I continue to reread sections and refer to it regularly.Read more ›
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59 of 59 people found the following review helpful
Erudite and stimulating problem book in inequalities
By Allen Stenger on September 10, 2005
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The classic work in this field is Hardy, Littlewood, and Polya's "Inequalities", but as much as I admire these authors for their other works, I have never gotten much out of their inequality book. Steele's book is different: extremely clear, erudite, and thorough, it almost makes everything obvious. The subject of inequalities is something of a hodge-podge, and Steele isn't able to change that, but he helps tie it together with lots of forward and backward references and with returns to problems after we have learned new methods. A good example is Carleman's inequality (easily the most startling result in the book); Steele provides three different proofs spread out through the book, plus a continuous analog.

Despite the title, the book is not primarily about the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality, although it (and the Arithmetic-Geometric Mean inequality and Jensen's inequality) do recur throughout the book.

The book is structured as a problem book. The body consists of a number of "challenges", each followed by an exploration of how to solve it. Each chapter ends with a copious selection of exercises; they are not as hard as the challenges, but they are hard enough and they will build your mastery of the material. All exercises are worked out in full in the back of the book.
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32 of 32 people found the following review helpful
A delicious smorgasbord of inequalities
By Peter Haggstrom on June 24, 2006
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Professor Steele has done a wonderful job in developing the theory behind the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality. He starts off with the basic theory and then through the course of the book he teases out the limitless ways the inequality can be used. There is a breathtaking sweep of applications. What is interesting and valuable about his approach is that as he develops the building blocks he explains why or why not a particular approach might not work. I think there is quite a bit of Polya's inspiration in his approach. For instance, he gives Polya's proof of the Carleman inequality which, on it face, is almost outrageously unbelievable ( where does the "e" come from?) but by that stage you worked through the challenge problems and the other material and it is possible to see why the "e" makes sense.

The challenge problems are excellent and his solutions sometimes skip over some important steps which a teacher could get students to fill in so that they can demonstrate that they understand the material.

There is a lot to learn from this book and it should be read by everyone who is seriously interested in mathematics. The classic Hardy-Littlewood-Polya book on inequalities is a quite different beast but the two together provide the serious reader with a depth of understanding that is hard to surpass.
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23 of 24 people found the following review helpful
at the core of mathematics
By Gilles Benson on March 19, 2006
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this book deals in a friendly fashion with inequalities (and therefore) with the elementary use of convexity and integrals.
Famous inequalities bear the name of famous mathematicians, e.g: Tchebychev, Hilbert, Cauchy, Hardy, Rademacher...This is one way to understand their significance in maths. This book is about those ones and others such as 3/2 < a/(b+c) + b/(c+a) + c/(a+b) and the many ways to tackle with the fact of proving and using them. Study of this book should be seen as a good and rewarding path towards improving one's mathematical skills .
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Great Book, Entertaining
By Kedar Hardikar on December 24, 2007
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Prof. Steele has done a great job in providing an "entertaining" (if I may say) book on inequalities. Along with Cauchy-Schwarz inequality the book provides very "lively and problem oriented" (adjectives from the first page of the book) chapters that are insightful and enjoyable. For example, the way you are introduced to Cauchy-Schwarz inequality involves attempting it as a "problem" - first looking at cases n=1 and n=2 trying to use induction. After that you get into fancy approach using quadratic expression. Such an approach throughout the book makes this book really enjoyable. Solutions provided make it ideal for self learning as well as a book to entertain yourself when you get bored :)
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Very good book. Author is not a very nice person ...

Very good book. Author is not a very nice person to correspond with but the book is good.

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Exercise Your Math Muscle

The book is an excellent exercise in learning to think creatively as a mathematician using a fundamental relationship. Enjoy it.

Published on November 10, 2013 by Stuart Leviton
Incredible book... really!

The Cauchy-Schwarz Master Class is perhaps amongst the best mathematics book that I have seen in many years. True to its name, it is indeed a Master Class. Read more

Published on September 24, 2013 by Shubhendu Trivedi
Fun and helpful

A wonderful expository book on building brain muscle for mathematical proof--obviously on inequalities. Wish all textbooks are written with such wit and care for the readers!

Published on March 3, 2012 by Eunice Kim
A wonderful book

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Published on January 5, 2011 by wdlang
Highly recommended

This is my first review ever of a technical book. I really love this book, and I highly recommend it. It is simultaneously useful, fun, and thought provoking.

Published on October 26, 2009 by Mario Figueiredo
Excellent examples of proofs

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