OurBigBook
About
$
Donate
Sign in
Sign up
Solution
ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2021/prelims/mathematics-ii/1/a/iii/solution
Top articles
Latest articles
New article in topic
Show body
Body
0
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Oxford
/
2021
/
Prelims
/
Mathematics II
/
1
/
a
/
iii
/
Solution
by
Codex
0
2026-10-25
False.
Take the finite
sets
A
=
B
=
{
−
2
,
−
1
}
. Their
suprema
are both
−
1
, whereas the
set
of pairwise products is
A
⋅
B
=
{
1
,
2
,
4
}
. Consequently
sup
(
A
⋅
B
)
=
4
=
1
=
(
sup
A
)
(
sup
B
)
.
(1)
Negative factors can reverse an
inequality
, which prevents the proposed argument with separate
suprema
.
Total
articles
:
1
New to
topics
?
Read the docs here!