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Topics in Analysis
Part II, 2008

(a) State Brouwer's fixed point theorem in the plane and prove that the statement is equivalent to non-existence of a continuous retraction of the closed disk DD to its boundary D\partial D.

(b) Use Brouwer's fixed point theorem to prove that there is a complex number zz in the closed unit disc such that z6z5+2z2+6z+1=0z^{6}-z^{5}+2 z^{2}+6 z+1=0.