# Proving Cardinality

• November 30th 2008, 11:14 AM
Ellis
Proving Cardinality
Hello,
Urgently need some help with some Mathematical Communication.
The question is:
Show that the set of all odd square numbers {1,9,25,49,...} has cardinality ℵ0 [aleph-zero].

Any ideas? (Worried)
• November 30th 2008, 11:31 AM
flyingsquirrel
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Originally Posted by Ellis
Show that the set of all odd square numbers {1,9,25,49,...} has cardinality ℵ0 [aleph-zero].

The $k$-th non-negative odd number is $2k-1$...

Can you use this to find a bijection which maps $\mathbb{N}$ onto $\{1,9,25,49\ldots\}$ ?
• November 30th 2008, 12:16 PM
Ellis
Cardinality of R
What is the largest cardinality, because surely I can start with the cardinality of the set of all Real numbers and then work from there?
• November 30th 2008, 12:32 PM
flyingsquirrel
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Originally Posted by Ellis
What is the largest cardinality

I don't know.
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because surely I can start with the cardinality of the set of all Real numbers and then work from there?
I don't think so.