Hairy Ball Theorem Updated

Thursday, April 3, 2014 - 12:32 in Health & Medicine

The Hairy Ball Theorem  (HBT) was first postulated (and then proved) by Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer in 1912. An informal statement of the theorem is that :              “One cannot comb the hair on a coconut”. read more

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