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== Accessible proof==
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Courant and Robbins provide an accessible proof.
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:Oops, yeah, that's a good catch. This probably deserves some looking into. –[[User:Deacon Vorbis|Deacon Vorbis]] ([[User Talk:Deacon Vorbis|carbon]] • [[Special:Contributions/Deacon Vorbis|videos]]) 01:19, 8 May 2020 (UTC)
== Did Brouwer offer the first proof for continuous functions? ==
In the book ''History of Topology'' by James on pages 273-274: "Bohl's theorem is also equivalent to the Brouwer theorem. Bohl's theorem was published in 1904, with a proof that required that f be differentiable. Brouwer published his fixed point theorem, for continuous functions on the 3-ball, in 1909. When the first proof for the n-ball, with f '''differentiable''', appeared in print a year later, in an appendix by '''J. Hadamard''' to a text by Tannery, the theorem was called the 'Brouwer Fixed Point Theorem', which suggests that the result was already famous by that time. It is not known in what year Brouwer made his discovery and, apparently, communicated it to other mathematicians in an informal manner. The first published proof of the general case, that is, for '''continuous''' functions on the n-ball, was by '''Brouwer''' himself in 1912."
In the book ''Brouwer Degree. The Core of Nonlinear Analysis'' by Mawhin on page 393: "In 1910, Jules Tannery published the second volume of the second edition of his book ‘Introduction à la théorie des fonctions de variables réelles’, for the time and still now a very modern presentation of analysis, introducing Weierstrass’ rigor in France. This volume two ended with a Note of Jacques Hadamard, connected in the following way to Tannery’s book material: 'The proof, following M. Ames, of Jordan’s theorem on closed curves without double point is based upon the concept of order of a point or, equivalently on the consideration of the variation of the argument. The generalization to the case where the dimension is larger than two is given by the Kronecker index. It is a now classical notion, mainly since the publication of the Traité d’Analyse of Mr. Picard (T. I, p. 123; T. II, p. 193). It has received new applications in various recent works. My aim is to present here some of them. All the following reasonings [...] only use the continuity of the considered functions.'"
The previous quote from Mawhin's book has a strange omission ([...]) that may indicate that Hadamard did not write down a proof for the continuous case. '''Can someone please check out if Hadamard proved the general case for differentiable functions and not for continuous functions?'''
:'''Comments.''' Please sign your posts with <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki> and, per [[WP:TPG]], add comments at the ''end'' of the talk page. Please stop edit-warring to insert your own [[WP:POV|point of view]]. There is already a discussion of the history of the FPT in the section [[Brouwer fixed-point theorem#First proofs]]. Bohl's proof applied to three dimensions. There are several historical accounts of the FPT, notably "A history of algebraic and differential topology, 1900–1960" by [[Jean Dieudonné]]. [[User:Mathsci|Mathsci]] ([[User talk:Mathsci|talk]]) 17:43, 21 February 2022 (UTC)
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