A good question won't go away: an example of mathematical research

DOI10.1080/00029890.2021.1847592MaRDI QIDQ5144497zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Robert F. Brown

Publication date 18 January 2021

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/00029890.2021.1847592

zbMATH Keywords

surveyfixed pointscommuting mapsmaps of the unit interval

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to general topology (54-02) Fixed-point and coincidence theorems (topological aspects) (54H25) History of general topology (54-03) Fixed points and coincidences in algebraic topology (55M20)

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