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DanielC
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It was shown by the German mathematician Cantor that any mapping

$$ f:\mathbb N \rightarrow \mathbb R $$

cannot be surjecive, which means that there is no way to map a discrete infinite basis in a Hilbert space into a continuous one. This is rephrased as: a separable Hilbert space cannot be isomorphic to a nonseparable one.

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