T.H. Ray
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Re: Sixth grade math
Posted:
Feb 11, 2010 7:13 AM
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Victor Meldrew wrote
> On 10 Feb, 21:07, "T.H. Ray" <thray...@aol.com>
> wrote:
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> > > The Borsuk-Ulam theorem, not the Brouwer
> fixed-point
> > >theorem
> >
> > I stand corrected. Insofar as B-U implies
> > Brouwer's theorem, I believe that Brouwer is
> usually
> > credited with providing at least the concept and
> > motivation for the metereological theorem, though I
> > couldn't swear it.
>
> I'd like to see a reference for that. It is easy to
> deduce Brouwer fixed-point from B-U but no
> conversely.
If I implied that, I didn't mean to. What I mean is
that the fixed point theorem is such a fundamental
result in topology (right up there with Urysohn, I
think) that most any result inspired by analysis on the
sphere owes a great deal to Brouwer's insight.
Tom
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