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The Book
The Book is an
invention of Paul Erdos, generally considered, the most prolific mathematician of the twentieth
century. In this book,
The Almighty has written the proofs of all the theorems of mathematics, arranged according their length
and in lexical order. Of course,
this is a job a computer can be
setup to do, but the big difference is that The Almighty has finished the job, unlike the computer.
Note that the lexical order is with respect to proofs, not with respect to theorems, a cruel joke by The Almighty. Incidentally, Hilbert
wanted to list the theorems in lexical order which, of course, turned out to be an unworkable idea. Click