2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/107718This note presents an especially short and direct variant of Hermite's proof of the simple continued fraction expansion e = [2,1,2,1,1,4,1,1,6,...] and explains some of the motivation behind it.6 pages; only change from published version is that "Riccati" is now spelled correctlyNumber Theorytext