(This question actually arose in some research on number theory.) I once learned that any countable dense subspace of any Euclidean space $\mathbb R^n$ is homeomorphic to the rationals $\mathbb Q$. Now I wonder if something similar is true for the irrationals $J \mathrel{:=} \mathbb R \setminus \mathbb Q$ (with the subspace topology from $\mathbb R$). Let $\mathfrak c$ denote the cardinality of the continuum. >**I**. Is each cartesian power $J^n$ homeomorphic to $J$? Also, how far can this be pushed? >**II**. Let $X$ be a dense totally disconnected subspace of $\mathfrak R$ such that every neighborhood of each point of $X$ contains $\mathfrak c$ points. Is $X$ homeomorphic to $J$? What about for such subspaces of fairly nice subspaces of $\mathbb R^n$? >**IIa**. Let $X$ be any subspace of $\mathbb R^n$ as described in **II**., and let $B$ denote any subspace of $\mathbb R^n$ homeomorphic to [the open unit ball in $\mathbb R^n$ $\cup$ any subset of its boundary]. Then is $X \cap B$ homeomorphic to $J$? And what about greater generality? >**III**. Is there a simple set of conditions that describe exactly all spaces (or subspaces of $\mathbb R^n$) that are homeomorphic to $J$? What about $J^n$? (Perhaps the word *homogeneous* or *metric* needs to be included.) (I found nothing relevant via Google, in MathSciNet, or here on MathOverflow.)