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Fixed Point (Mathematics)

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A fixed point, sometimes called a fixpoint or invariant point, is a value that a given transformation leaves unchanged. For a function, a fixed point is an element that the function maps to itself, and the set of all fixed points of a transformation is itself an invariant set. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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1911 1
Marks the Brouwer fixed-point theorem (1911), the first landmark general fixed-point result in mathematics; the everyday notion of a value left unchanged by a transformation is older and not independently datable as a single origin.
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The theorem guarantees a fixed point exists for any continuous self-map of a nonempty compact convex set, so its conclusion is the fixed point concept applied.

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  • Lead section
    a fixed point (sometimes shortened to fixpoint), also known as an invariant point, is a value that does not change under a given transformation
  • Fixed-point theorems section
    The Brouwer fixed-point theorem (1911) says that any continuous function from the closed unit ball in n-dimensional Euclidean space to itself must have a fixed point, but it does not describe how to find the fixed point.
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