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A strictly decreasing function between uncountable subsets of the reals

By a standard technique of inductive killing everything relevant (in this case decreasing homeomorphisms between uncountable $G_\delta$-subsets of the real line) it is possible to prove the following ...
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Characterizing $\mathbf{R}$ as an ordered group

A standard characterization of $\mathbf{R}$ uses the order and the field structure: any linearly ordered field that is archimedean and complete is isomorphic to $(\mathbf{R}, +, \times, <)$ as an ...
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A Linear Order from AP Calculus

In teaching my calculus students about limits and function domination, we ran into the class of functions $$\Theta=\{x^\alpha (\ln{x})^\beta\}_{(\alpha,\beta)\in\mathbb{R}^2}$$ Suppose we say that $...
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