Paper 1, Section II, E
Part IA, 2011
State and prove the Intermediate Value Theorem.
A fixed point of a function is an with . Prove that every continuous function has a fixed point.
Answer the following questions with justification.
(i) Does every continuous function have a fixed point?
(ii) Does every continuous function have a fixed point?
(iii) Does every function (not necessarily continuous) have a fixed point?
(iv) Let be a continuous function with and . Can have exactly two fixed points?