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- From: dzk@cs.brown.edu (Danny Keren)
- Subject: Re: Is Card(R)=Card(R^2)?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.162406.16084@cs.brown.edu>
- Sender: news@cs.brown.edu
- Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 16:24:06 GMT
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- proberts@informix.com (Paul Roberts) writes:
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- #I believe that there is even an everywhere-continuous
- #bijective mapping from the unit line to the unit square.
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- That is not possible, since it would imply the unit interval is
- homeomorphic to the unit square. This is because the inverse of
- such a map is also contiuous. Since, take a closed subset of
- the interval. It is compact; hence its image is compact, but
- every compact subset of the unit square is closed.
-
- There is a continuous map from the interval *onto* the square;
- Peano constructed the first such map, and it is quite easy to
- give a proof such a map exists using simple convergence properties
- of functions.
-
- -Danny Keren.
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