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Elementary Proof of Hairy Ball Theorem

Todd at Topological Musings has posted an elementary proof of the Hairy Ball Theorem: the theorem that all vector fields on a even-dimensional sphere must vanish somewhere. The elementary proof is by Milnor.... Read more…

Published: 12:49 07/23/2008, Source: Ars Mathematica, Do you like this article? yes/no Points: 0