TY - BOOK AU - Shapiro,Joel H. TI - Fixed-point farrago T2 - Universitext SN - 9783319279763 U1 - 515.7248 23 PY - 2016/// CY - Switzerland : PB - Springer KW - Fixed point theory N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. From Newton to Google.- 2. Brouwer in Dimension Two.- 3. Contraction Mappings.- 4. Brouwer in Higher Dimensions.- 5. Nash Equilibrium.- 6. Nash's "one-page proof".- 7. The Schauder Fixed-Point Theorem.- 8. The Invariant Subspace Problem.- 9. The Markov-Kakutani Theorem.- 10. The Meaning of Means.- 11. Paradoxical Decompositions.- 12. Fixed Points for Non-commuting Map Families.- 13. Beyond Markov-Kakutani.- Appendices N2 - This text provides an introduction to some of the best-known fixed-point theorems, with an emphasis on their interactions with topics in analysis. The level of exposition increases gradually throughout the book, building from a basic requirement of undergraduate proficiency to graduate-level sophistication ER -