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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2010 ii Paper 2 11F iii Solution by
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Fix with , and let be radial projection to the closed disc. The continuous map has a fixed point by the Brouwer fixed-point theorem. On the boundary, , so its image under is interior and cannot equal the boundary point . Therefore . An interior fixed point of this projection must satisfy , because points outside the disc project to its boundary. Thus . Every belongs to .
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