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Cardinality of the permutations of an infinite set

As already mentioned, we have $$2^k\le k^k\le(2^k)^k=2^{kk}=2^k,$$ and thus $2^k=k^k$. The inequality $k!\le k^k$ is obvious. To check $2^k\le k!$, note that $2^k$ subsets of $X$ are the set of fixed …
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Does every set have a rigid self-map?

The question was asked on Mathematics Stackexchange but has remained unanswered so far. A self-map is a map $f:X\to X$ from a set $X$ to itself. There is an obvious notion of morphism, and thus of iso …
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How would one even begin to try to prove that a simple number-theoretic statement is undecid...

EDIT Here is my problem. To prove that statement S is undecidable is to (1) prove that one cannot prove S. I think I understand the meaning of the second "prove". (It depends of course on the cont …
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Subset of the plane that intersects every line exactly twice

Here is a minor variation of the proof. We show that there is a subset $Z$ of $\mathbb R^2$ which intersects each line exactly twice. We define the ordinals in such a way that each ordinal $a$ is th …