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178 and p. 179, can't be regarded as proved,41 and a query of the top significance remains to be to be made up our minds right here. The ‘plane translation theorem’ acknowledged on the finish of the second one verbal exchange and equally in Mathematische Annalen sixty nine, p. 179 and p. a hundred and eighty, has in the meantime been proved carefully by way of one other procedure. forty two Fig. four. 3The handwritten corrections on the finish of Brouwer’s paper (in Dutch) non-stop one-one differences of surfaces in themselves. [Brouwer archive] the right kind facts of the interpretation theorem within the Mathematische Annalen, is a sophisticated piece of airplane topology within the conventional type. it really is impressive that Brouwer formulated the theory in relatively sweeping phrases, in order that a reader may (without studying the facts) simply be misled. In 1919 he released a quick note43 with the right kind formula, and a counter instance to the superficial analyzing. This, incidentally, was once already inserted in handwriting through Brouwer in his reprints of the second one communique (Dutch version). possibly these corrections have been inserted quickly after book. forty four the right kind formula of the interpretation theorem calls for extra topology than our exposition permits. enable it suffice to assert non-stop 1–1 mapping of the airplane with no fastened issues splits the airplane right into a variety of strip-like components disjoint from their photographs, so-called ‘translation fields’. Freudenthal, in his editorial reviews in Brouwer (1976) (p. 218), wrote that ‘In the twenties and thirties Brouwer said orally his trust that the unique evidence should be salvaged. it might be worthy to aim it simply because its concept, particularly the development of a metamorphosis box at one stroke, is extra beautiful than that of Brouwer’s ultimate proof’. A reader of Brouwer’s papers should be struck via the conscientious demeanour within which corrections and emendations have been supplied. Brouwer, it seems that, was once striving for perfection in his papers, even once they had seemed. a couple of deepest copies of reprints hold handwritten corrections or additions, that frequently seemed as supplementations to later papers, or as person corrections, even if basically trivial slips or misprints have been involved. four. five Vector Fields on Surfaces One month after the conversation of the 1st paper at the non-stop 1–1 mappings of the sector, Korteweg awarded one other paper of his scholar: On non-stop vector distributions on surfaces. forty five The paper was once the 1st of one other sequence of papers, all released within the lawsuits of the Academy. It handled vector distributions on spheres in a generalised surroundings, that's to assert, on homeomorphic photographs of spheres. Brouwer’s strategy was once in response to Peano’s life theorem for differential equations;46 he investigated singularities of vector fields via differential equations. there's a shut connection among this sequence of papers and the basic papers of Poincaré at the qualitative idea of differential equations (Mémoire sur les courbes définies par une équation differentielle I, II, III, 1881, 1882, 1885).