Timeline for An example of a beautiful proof that would be accessible at the high school level?
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| Oct 3, 2012 at 23:24 | history | edited | copumpkin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 9, 2011 at 11:13 | comment | added | darij grinberg | It seems the question should have been more precise about the level and the interests of the students. But if we are seriously discussing Connes's proof of Morley's theorem, I assumed it to be somewhat above the average. | |
| Sep 9, 2011 at 0:26 | comment | added | Douglas Zare | How compelling do you think this symbol manipulation would be for a wide audience? Say, those who would not understand what you are asking if you ask them to show that a left identity equals a right identity. | |
| Sep 8, 2011 at 23:29 | comment | added | darij grinberg | Depends on the high school students. The assertion is certainly a nice first-round contest-level problem. And it is probably more interesting than many things done in school mathematics (then again, everything is...). | |
| Sep 8, 2011 at 20:44 | comment | added | Douglas Zare | Do you really think middle school or high school students will appreciate proving that a monoid is commutative, or the applications to higher homotopy theory? Perhaps I went to the wrong middle school. | |
| Sep 8, 2011 at 16:24 | history | answered | copumpkin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |