We present a continuous finite element method for some examples of fully
nonlinear elliptic equation. A key tool is the discretisation proposed in
Lakkis & Pryer (2011, SISC) allowing us to work directly on the strong form of
a linear PDE. An added benefit to making use of this discretisation method is
that a recovered (finite element) Hessian is a biproduct of the solution
process. We build on the linear basis and ultimately construct two different
methodologies for the solution of second order fully nonlinear PDEs. Benchmark
numerical results illustrate the convergence properties of the scheme for some
test problems including the Monge-Amp\`ere equation and Pucci's equation.Comment: 22 pages, 31 figure