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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2011 ia Paper 4 1E ii Solution by
Codex 0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
Can be false. Take and defineThen , so their function composition is the identity function and hence a bijection. However, is not surjective, since zero has no preimage, while is not injective, since .
The valid implications are only that must be injective and must be surjective: equality of two values implies equality after composition, and every output of the composition is an output of . On a finite , either of these properties implies a bijection, so an infinite set is essential to this counterexample.
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