Ever seen the little ‘You Are Here’ dot on a map of the airport, or the mall, or any other structure? That’s a demonstration of the Brouwer Fixed-Point Theorem. Violently shaken martini shakers and ...

Fixed point theoremsvital tools for mathematicianscan seem esoteric, but fixed points actually crop up every now and then in unexpected places which you might not readily associate with mathematics ...

Give a mathematically-minded magician that little fact, and she'll use it to invent any number of awe-inspiring card tricks. Photo: iStock Years ago, I ran across the Time-Life book Mathematics on my ...

https://doi.org/10.4169/amer.math.monthly.121.05.415 https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.4169/amer.math.monthly.121.05.415 The Monthly publishes articles, as well as ...