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Common fixed point problem
- ... that in 1967, two mathematicians published PhD dissertations independently disproving the same thirteen-year-old conjecture?
- Source: "The purpose of this paper is to answer Dyer's question in the negative by the construction of a pair of commuting functions which have no fixed point in common. [...] This paper is a condensation of the author's 1967 doctoral dissertation", from a paper by Boyce . "It has been conjectured that any two continuous functions f, g mapping the closed unit interval into itself which commute under composition [...] must have a common fixed point [...] Chapter 2 defines a pair of functions which show that the conjecture is false", from Huneke's 1967 PhD dissertation.
- Reviewed:
- Comment: If the reviewer doesn't have ProQuest access, I can provide a copy of Huneke's dissertation over email.
Created by WillisBlackburn (talk).
Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.
jlwoodwa (talk) 19:15, 16 October 2024 (UTC).
- Starting review...
- Article is new enough and long enough
- Sources all appear to be WP:RS and for the most part, adequately cited with in-line citations. There are however
two {{citation needed}} tags which need to be addressed. - Earwig calls out a few phrases here and there but they all look like technical terms which can't be rephrased, so no problems there.
- Extra brownie points for taking an exceptionally technical article and writing a hook which will appeal to most readers. RoySmith (talk) 22:16, 13 November 2024 (UTC)
@Jlwoodwa: just want to make sure you saw this. RoySmith (talk) 01:18, 18 November 2024 (UTC)
- @RoySmith: Thanks for the ping. I've removed the first statement tagged with {{citation needed}} (since WillisBlackburn said on the talk page that it turned out to be false), and added a citation for the other statement. jlwoodwa (talk) 01:58, 18 November 2024 (UTC)
- Looking at this closer, I see that there's still some statements that need citations. I've added some more {{citation needed}} tags. My apologies for not picking up on this the first time. RoySmith (talk) 02:06, 18 November 2024 (UTC)