Re: Peano's space-filling curve

From: Robin Chapman (rjc_at_ivorynospamtower.freeserve.co.uk)
Date: 06/10/04


Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 19:11:57 +0100

John Morgan wrote:

>
> I never knew that, or if I did it hadn't registered. Is the
> corollary true? If a transformation of I --> I^2 is
> discovered that is 1to1, onto and continuous then it cannot
> be called a function.

Here are the facts:

(i) there is a bijection f : [0,1] -> [0,1]^2,
(ii) there is a continuous surjection g : [0,1] -> [0,1]^2,
(iii) there is no continuous bijection h : [0,1] -> [0,1]^2.

>
> John

Any relation to Piers?

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