1.II.16G
Part II, 2008
What is a well-ordered set? Show that given any two well-ordered sets there is a unique order isomorphism between one and an initial segment of the other.
Show that for any ordinal and for any non-zero ordinal there are unique ordinals and with and .
Show that a non-zero ordinal is a limit ordinal if and only if for some non-zero ordinal .
[You may assume standard properties of ordinal addition, multiplication and subtraction.]