How much of this book will I be able to grasp, given that my math education stopped with an undergrad course in real analysis?
Pretty much all of it
I’m not entirely sure of that, and it will take some effort to follow some of the proofs, but it will be worthwhile. I think this would be a good book for a technically-oriented book club to discuss, taking on one proof a month.
Great book, it must be noted that wikipedia lists the first edition from 1998 but it is now in it's sixth edition (2018)
Is it written for a general audience, with sufficient explanations from an elementary standpoint, discussions on background, why a proof is brilliant, etc, or is it more like a collection of abstruse mathematics papers?
> "The Book" in which God keeps the most elegant proof of each mathematical theorem
> The proofs include: Six proofs of the infinitude of the primes
ironic
Don't they know they can just pick the maximal one?