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true/false:-

  1. There is a continuous onto function from the unit sphere in $\mathbb{R}^3$ to the complex plane $\mathbb{C}$.

  2. There is a non-constant continuous function from the open unit disc $D = \{z ∈ \mathbb{C} \mid |z| < 1 \}$ to $\mathbb{R}$ which takes only irrational values .

  3. $f \colon \mathbb{C} \to \mathbb{C}$ is an entire function such that the function $g(z)$ given by $g(z) = f( 1/z)$ has a pole at 0. Then f is a surjective map.

please help anyone.

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    @mintu: Look at something like $f(z)=e^z$, so that $g$ has an essential singularity at $z=0$. Recall that a function has an essential singularity iff it has infinitely many $z^{-1}$ power terms. In other words, for which $f$ can $g$ *really* have a pole at 0?2012-09-19

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The image of a compact space under a continuous function is compact. That answers your first question if you know the plane is not compact and the sphere is. The sphere is a closed and bounded subset of a Euclidean space, so it's compact. It's closed because it's the inverse image of the closed set $\{1\}$ under the continuous function $(x,y,z)\mapsto x^2+y^2+z^2$.

For your second question, a restriction of your function on the disk to some line segment within the disk is also continuous, and you can apply the intermediate value theorem and the fact that between every two real numbers there is a rational number. Make the ends of the line segment two points that don't have the same image under the function. You know those exist since it's non-constant.

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(1) False. The continuous image of a compact space is compact, and a compact subset of the plane is bounded. (2) False. The continuous image of a connected set is connected, and the connected subsets of $\mathbb{R}$ are intervals. (3) True. An entire function with a pole and infinite is a polynomial. Now apply the fundamental theorem of algebra.