Thank you very much for replying. I have a few more questions, if you don't mind.
1). What is ISO(3) exactly? Is it a combination of the rotation group and translation group for 3-space?
2). Is Wrede mistaken in not referring to parity in his definition of vector, or what?
In the "intro to differential forms" thread by lethe, Super Mentor Tom defines a vector as something that transforms under rotation (multiplication by an orthogonal matrix) and parity (reflection through a mirror) in a certain way. I'm currently reading "Introduction to Vector and Tensor...
On further thought, I'll answer my own question (or try to). The subset I described isn't finite, so it's lack of a supremum doesn't mean that Q isn't a lattice.
It is, isn't it. I feel silly. At the risk of getting another simple answer to a stupid question, what about an interval between 0 and a positive irrational number, say sqrt(2). Does the supremum of such an interval lie within Q?
I'm reading "A Course in Advanced Calculus" by Robert Borden, and one of the problems begins as follows:
"Prove that the field Q is a lattice, but not a (sigma)-lattice, under the usual order" (pg.25)
Q is of course the rational numbers.
However, Q doesn't seem to be a lattice, since...
thanks for the info, cod and quartdeciman!
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