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The Hausdorff Maximal Principle, Zorn’s Lemma, Well Ordering, and AC part 1

September 25, 2018 Joseph Leave a comment

In this post I’m going to prove that the following four statements are equivalent given the ZF axioms: (1) Hausdorff…

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Posted in: Sets and functions

The IVT, Darboux functions, and Conway’s base 13 function

September 15, 2018 Joseph Leave a comment

$\newcommand{\e}{\varepsilon}$In this post I’m going to prove the intermediate value theorem (IVT), Darboux’s theorem, and introduce the Conway base 13…

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Posted in: Real analysis

Every vector space has a basis

September 12, 2018 Joseph Leave a comment

Here I’m going to go through one common proof of the following result: Theorem: assuming Zorn’s lemma, every vector space…

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Posted in: Sets and functions

The Schroeder-Bernstein theorem and orders on sets

September 6, 2018 Joseph Leave a comment

In this post I’m going to prove the Schroeder-Bernstein theorem and then discuss an order on the class of all…

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Matrix representations of finite partial orders

August 31, 2018 Joseph Leave a comment

In the previous post I looked at binary relations on finite sets; in this post I’m going to prove a…

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Posted in: Linear algebra, Sets and functions

Matrices representing binary relations on finite sets

August 28, 2018 Joseph Leave a comment

There are a lot of times when I encounter an unordered set but then end up working with a matrix…

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Posted in: Linear algebra, Sets and functions

The asymmetry in pushing and pulling sets

August 24, 2018 Joseph Leave a comment

$\newcommand{\X}{\mathscr X}$$\newcommand{\Y}{\mathscr Y}$$\newcommand{\pow}{\mathcal P}$Let $f : \X \to \Y$ be a function between non-empty but otherwise arbitrary sets $\X$ and…

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