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Is there a continuous bijection from open interval $(0,1)$ to $[0,1]$. The answer is not. How to prove?

I think it may proceed by contradiction and apply open mapping theorem. However, $(0,1)$ is not complete. I get stuck.

David Mitra
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    I think this will help answer your question: http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/42308/continuous-bijection-from-0-1-to-0-1 – Michael Shi Sep 25 '14 at 07:31
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    @MichaelShi Good catch! I suggest you vote we close this question as a duplicate. – 5xum Sep 25 '14 at 07:32
  • Yes. Thank you. I myself this is duplicate and should be closed. Sorry for this. – Shine Sep 25 '14 at 07:43

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Let $f\colon (0,1)\to [0,1]$ be continuous and onto and $f(c)=1$ with $0<c<1$. Let $a=\frac c2$ and $b=\frac{1+c}2$. If $f(a)=1$ or $f(b)=1$, clearly $f$ is not injective. If both $f(a)<1$ and $f(b)<1$, pick $y\in(\max\{f(a),f(b)\},1)$ and note by IVT that there are $x_1\in(a,c)$ and $x_2\in(c,b)$ with $f(x_1)=f(x_2)=y$. At any rate, $f$ is not injective.

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