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Proof Elegance 
Topic Teaching Tip(s): Courses in which students communicate about mathematics | Communication recitations | General principles of mathematical communication | Proof elegance
This recitation from MIT's communication-intensive offering of Real Analysis focuses on proof elegance. Students discuss examples of more and less elegant proofs, read Hardy's writing on elegance, and suggest examples of proofs they consider to be elegant. Examples are included.
Resource URL: http://math.mit.edu/mathcomm/courses/18-100cfall2009/proof-elegance/
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Subject classification(s):
Language of Mathematics
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Real Analysis
Publisher:
MathDL Mathematical Communication
This review was published on January 22, 2012
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