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- From: weishaup@vesta.unm.edu
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Homeomorphism
- Summary: problem from analysis book I don't get
- Keywords: glitch, bicontinuous, hmmm?
- Message-ID: <_1gmcfj@lynx.unm.edu>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 17:02:50 GMT
- Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
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- I was looking at Gelbaum's book of problems in Analysis (Springer, ~1990),
- and i found a problem that I don't understand:
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- 1.)Show that the set [0,1) is homeomorphic to the Real Line...
- At first I thought that this was impossible (The real line is open, the inverse
- image of it under a continuous mapping must also be open), but I found that
- was not insurmountable (after all, the Real line is also closed), but I don't
- understand how Gelbaum's Homeomorphism works... He lets
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- f:[0,1) -> R
-
- be defined by
-
- f(x) = (1/(1-x)) * Sin[1/(1-x)]
-
- I don't get this at all... f(x) does not appear to be invertible, so I don't
- see how it can be a Homeomorphism.
-
- An explanation would be welcome for this non-homework problem's answer either
- thru e-mail or (if the author thinks it merits the attention) through this
- newsgroup; Alternate Homeomorphisms would also be handy.
-
- Thanks,,,,
- Ben Jones
- (weishaup@carina.unm.edu
- )
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