What's a number?
Rational and Irrational numbers
Lemma 1
- Between any two different rational numbers a and b there is at least one other rational number.
- Between any two different irrational numbers a and b there is at least one other rational number.
- Between any two different rational numbers a and b there is at least one other irrational number.
- Between any two different irrational numbers a and b there is at least one other irrational number.
Corollary
In all four statements assertion of existence of a single number can be replaced with the assertion of existence of infinitely many numbers.
Union of two countable sets is countable.
Union of a countable number of countable sets is countable.
The set Q of all rational numbers is equivalent to the set N of all integers.
Lemma 5
The set I of all irrational numbers is not countable.
The set of all algebraic numbers is countable.