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WillisBlackburn (talk·contribs) This user has declared a connection. (William M. Boyce, one of the two mathematicians who solved this problem, is my father.)
I believe that this subject is notable due to:
The significant amount of attention given to the problem during the period when it was unsolved, as evidenced by the sources
The publication of articles and papers about the problem even decades after it was solved (the articles by Brown and McDowell, and the master's thesis by McCroskey)
The continued relevance of Baxter permutations, which arose directly from research into this problem
References to the work of Boyce and/or Huneke in recent research, e.g., "On distal flows and common fixed point theorems in Banach spaces" (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmaa.2022.126995), published in 2023, references the "Commuting functions with no common fixed point" paper
