Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2025/ii/paper-2/11i/b/solution

Brouwer's fixed-point theorem in the plane states that every continuous map from a closed disk to itself has a fixed point. Equivalently, the same holds for every nonempty compact convex subset of .
On the closed unit disk define
For ,
so maps the disk continuously into itself. Brouwer supplies with , which is equivalent to
Thus this polynomial has a root with .

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