Conceptual machines which demonstrate the existence of Brouwer fixed points (Q1094702)
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4026334
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4026334 |
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Conceptual machines which demonstrate the existence of Brouwer fixed points (English)
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1988
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The author proves the Brouwer fixed point theorem by appeal to mechanical intuition. A sequence of machines is described for each real dimension greater than unity. As a sufficiently large force is applied to this mechanism, the coordinates of certain components can be made arbitrarily close to positions which are analogues of a fixed point.
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