Analytic Proofs of the "Hairy Ball Theorem" and the Brouwer Fixed Point Theorem

DOI 10.2307/2320860</link>zbMath 0386.55001</link>OpenAlex W4254096472</link>Wikidata Q113385411</link> Scholia Q113385411</link>MaRDI QID Q4167290</link>

John W. Milnor

Publication date: 1978

Published in: The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2320860

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vector fields, frame fields in differential topology (57R25) Fixed-point and coincidence theorems (topological aspects) (54H25) Fixed-point theorems on manifolds (58C30) Integration of real functions of several variables: length, area, volume (26B15) Fixed points and coincidences in algebraic topology (55M20)

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