Exercise 1.6.1

Show that ( 0 , 1 ) is uncountable if and only if R is uncountable.

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In Exercise 1.5.4 (a) we found a bijection f : ( 0 , 1 ) R . Now suppose g : ( 0 , 1 ) N is some map, we must show g is bijective if and only if ( g f ) : R N is bijective. This is clearly true as if g is bijective then ( g f ) is bijective (composition of bijective functions), and if ( g f ) is bijective then ( g f ) f 1 = g is bijective.

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