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Applications of Brouwer's fixed point theorem
I'm presenting Brouwer's fixed point theorem to an audience that knows some point-set topology. Does anyone have any zippy / enlightening / cool applications or consequences of it? So far, I have:
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Applications of compactness [closed]
Similar to this question: Applications of connectedness I want to collect applications of compactness.
E.g.: compact + discrete => finite, which can be used to prove the finiteness of the ...