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- From: edgar@function.mps.ohio-state.edu (Gerald Edgar)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Is Card(R)=Card(R^2)?
- Date: 14 Aug 1992 07:58:28 -0400
- Organization: The Ohio State University, Dept. of Math.
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- >>>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.
- >>
- >
- >How about the unit line minus the end points, and the interior of
- >the unit square?
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- A continuous bijection from the open interval onto the open square
- is also not possible. The reason for it is a bit harder, this time.
- But still not beyond a first course in point-set topology.
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