Bourbaki

Exercise 4, § 2

General Topology, VI

Show that there is no homeomorphism of S1S_1 into R\mathbf{R}. (Observe that the complement in S1S_1 of any point of S1S_1 is connected, and that every connected subset of R\mathbf{R} is an interval.)

Deduce that a homeomorphism of S1S_1 onto a subspace of S1S_1 is necessarily a homeomorphism of S1S_1 onto S1S_1 (use Proposition 4 of no. 4).

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