Beautiful Proofs

There are a lot of proofs whose clever simplicitly is worth writing down.

"... the snobbery of the young, who think that a theorem is trivial because its proof is trivial." -- 'the quote is a garbled version of Grothendieck, quoting Ronnie Brown quoting J.H.C. Whitehead. I found it on p.188 of the PDF version of Récoltes et Semailles'

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