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Easy Proofs of Hard Inequalities
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Abstract
Many inequalities are difficult to discover but easy to prove, just as many proofs are difficult to motivate but easy to follow. Ignoring the problems of discovery and motivation, we give simple new proofs for a variety of important inequalities.
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