I am sitting with a task where I have to prove the following:
Claim:
Every subset of R, that contains an interval I with a<b, has the same cardinality as R.
So I think that I should prove that there exist a bijection from I to R? I'm kinda lost, and don't know how to start.
There is a lemma 3 in the book saying:
Let a,b∈R with −∞≠a<b≠∞. There exist a f:]−1;1[→]a;b[ that is bijektiv. The intervals ]−1;1[ and ]a;b[ has same cardinality.
Another lemma 4 says:
f:]0;1[→]1;∞[, x→1x, is bijective. The intervals f:]0;1[→]1;∞[ have same cardinality.
(There is an image added to lemma4)
The above interval ]−1;1[ has same cardinality as R, and the f is bijective
Any help is highly appreciated
Answer
Hints:
First prove that any two non-empty open intervals have the same cardinality.
Second, pass now to use the nice interval (−π/2,π/2) and a rather nice, simple trigonometric function to show equipotency with R
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