2.II.21F

Algebraic Topology
Part II, 2008

Prove the Borsuk-Ulam theorem in dimension 2: there is no map f:S2S1f: S^{2} \rightarrow S^{1} such that f(x)=f(x)f(-x)=-f(x) for every xS2x \in S^{2}. Deduce that S2S^{2} is not homeomorphic to any subset of R2\mathbb{R}^{2}.