Patrick Stevens is an undergraduate mathematics student at the University of Cambridge, and I’ve really been enjoying his blog recently. He’s been doing a series of posts about discovering proofs of standard real analysis theorems. He writes that the series is “mostly intended so that I start finding the results intuitive – having once found a proof myself, I hope to be able to reproduce it without too much effort in the exam.” When I teach analysis, one of my main goals is for students to start developing their mathematical intuition, to learn how to “follow their noses.”
Read the full post at the AMS Blog on Math Blogs.
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