Talk:Common fixed point problem

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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
Showing up on Math StackExchange and other sites from time to time (e.g., https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/4413605/continuous-function-on-the-unit-interval-with-commuting-compositions)

Citation needed

Regarding a citation for the statement "Huneke's paper is notable for its first-principles approach to the problem, not relying on any of the work done by earlier mathematicians." My source is Huneke's paper itself. It only has three references: two are to Boyce's dissertation and his Transactions paper, and the third is to Huneke's own dissertation. WillisBlackburn (talk) 17:20, 16 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]