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We present a short proof, relaying on the divergence theorem, verifying that minimal sets in the plane are trivial.

In this note we shall give a new proof to a quadrature formulae due to Newton.

In this paper, we provide an easy proof of the Four-colour Theorem in a special case indeed.

We discuss a version of the fundamental theorem of calculus in several variables and some applications, of potential interest as a teaching material in undergraduate courses.

A completeness theorem is proved involving a system of integro-differential equations with some $\lambda$-depending boundary conditions. Also some sufficient conditions for the root functions to form a Riesz basis are established.

We provide elementary proof of several congruences involving single sum and multisums of binomial coefficients.

We give a short proof of Szemer\'edi's regularity lemma, based on elementary Euclidean geometry. The general line of the proof is that of the standard proof (in fact, of Szemer\'edi's original proof), but most technicalities are swallowed…

We give a counting based proof of the Graham Pollak Theorem

We give a proof of Pythagoras' theorem which does not use neither squares nor similarity of triangles.

We propose two new proofs of the Pythagorean theorem via area rearrangement arguments starting from very simple geometric configurations. The constructions depend on an angular parameter, each choice of which yields a proof. For specific…

We give a proof of a Martingale Representation Theorem using the methods of nonstandard analysis.

We will prove the Brannan conjecture for particular values of the parameter. The basic tool of the study is an integral representation published in a recent work [3].

We show that a simple and straightforward rational approximation to the Thomas--Fermi equation provides the slope at origin with unprecedented accuracy. We compare present approach with other available ones.

Recently we have obtained two simple proofs of Sharkovsky's theorem, one with directed graphs [7] and the other without [8]. In this note, we present yet more simple proofs of Sharkovsky's theorem.

An alternative form of Fermats equation[1] is proposed. It represents a portion of the identity that includes three terms of Fermats original equation. This alternative form permits an elementary and compact proof of the first case of…

In this paper I present a kind of proof for classical Euclidean geometric problems which relies on both synthetic and analytic geometry. Using the elementary tools of polynomial algebra and multivariate calculus we manage to reduce the…

Fourier-Motzkin elimination, a standard method for solving systems of linear inequalities, leads to an elementary, short, and self-contained proof of von Neumann's minimax theorem.

The theorem of Feuerbach states that the nine-point circle of a nonequilateral triangle is tangent to both its incircle and its three excircles. We give a simple proof of this theorem.

A recently proposed integral representation for permanents is rederived using only elementary combinatorics. For this proof the assumption that the matrix, for which the permanent is calculated, has an inverse is not necessary.

We give a purely combinatorial proof for the infinitary van der Waerden's theorem.