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- From: proberts@informix.com (Paul Roberts)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Is Card(R)=Card(R^2)?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.230606.6227@informix.com>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 23:06:06 GMT
- References: <1992Aug13.000928.12631@unidus.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de> <1992Aug13.011522.11161@informix.com> <16dihrINNpet@function.mps.ohio-state.edu>
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- In article <16dihrINNpet@function.mps.ohio-state.edu> edgar@function.mps.ohio-state.edu (Gerald Edgar) writes:
- >
- >>I believe that there is even an everywhere-continuous
- >>bijective mapping from the unit line to the unit square.
- >
- >No, there is not. The interval and the square are not homeomorphic.
- >Such a continuous bijective map would be a homeomorphism,
- >since the two spaces are compact Hausdorff spaces.
- >
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- How about the unit line minus the end points, and the interior of
- the unit square? I am sure I saw the construction once, it stuck in
- my mind because the conclusion seemed so counter-intuitive.
-
- I am pretty sure that it was nowhere-differentiable, but everywhere-
- continuous.
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- Paul
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