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Pseudo-ordered fields

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

Peter Csontos ,
Christopher L. Morgan  and
Kenneth Rebman
Peter Csontos
Affiliation:
California State University, Hayward, California 94542, USA
Christopher L. Morgan
Affiliation:
California State University, Hayward, California 94542, USA
Kenneth Rebman
Affiliation:
California State University, Hayward, California 94542, USA
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Extract

A danger in teaching familiar material is oversimplification. In this article, we shall explore an example of this.

One of the authors observed a colleague (at another institution) introduce his students to the ordering of the real numbers by stating that < is a relation on ℝ which satisfies the following axiom system:

“For all x, y, z in ℝ:

  1. 1. Exactly one of x = y, x < y, y < x holds.

  2. 2. If x < y and 0 < z, then xz < yz.

  3. 3. If x < y, then x + z < y + z.”

Type
Research Article
Information
The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 58 , Issue 405 , October 1974 , pp. 195 - 198
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1974

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