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Injectivity implies surjectivity

There is an improvement of the answer of Joseph Van Name which I feel is much more in the spirit in the question asked: Let $(X,d)$ be a compact metric space, and assume that the mapping $f\colon X\t …
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Non-Formal Applications: Higman and Kruskal

Unsurprisingly, there are various ways in which Higman's lemma is used in the context of Gröbner bases. One interesting recent example : http://www.msri.org/people/members/chillar/files/HS-MonoidGBFin …
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Is there a natural bijection from $\mathbb{N}$ to $\mathbb{Q}$?

There is a following result which is quite lovely, I think (I don't remember right away whose result this is): Let us define a function $f\colon\mathbb{N}\to\mathbb{Q}^+$ as follows: $f(1)=1$, and al …
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