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An Elementary Course in Synthetic Projective Geometry |
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Derrick Norman Lehmer
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Science
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English
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2005
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*4. One-to-one correspondence and enumeration.* If a one-to-one correspondence
has been set up between the objects of one set and the objects of another set,
then the inference may usually be drawn that they have the same number of elements.
If, however, there is an infinite number of individuals in each of the two sets,
the notion of counting is necessarily ruled out. It may be possible, nevertheless,
to set up a one-to-one correspondence between the elements of two sets even when
the number is infinite. Thus, it is easy to set up such a correspondence between
the points of a line an inch long and the points of a line two
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