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.
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.