Description: Well-ordering principle: any nonempty subset of an upper set of integers has a unique least element. (Contributed by NM, 8-Oct-2005)
| Ref | Expression | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Assertion | uzwo2 | |- ( ( S C_ ( ZZ>= ` M ) /\ S =/= (/) ) -> E! j e. S A. k e. S j <_ k ) |
| Step | Hyp | Ref | Expression |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | uzssz | |- ( ZZ>= ` M ) C_ ZZ |
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| 2 | zssre | |- ZZ C_ RR |
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| 3 | 1 2 | sstri | |- ( ZZ>= ` M ) C_ RR |
| 4 | sstr | |- ( ( S C_ ( ZZ>= ` M ) /\ ( ZZ>= ` M ) C_ RR ) -> S C_ RR ) |
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| 5 | 3 4 | mpan2 | |- ( S C_ ( ZZ>= ` M ) -> S C_ RR ) |
| 6 | uzwo | |- ( ( S C_ ( ZZ>= ` M ) /\ S =/= (/) ) -> E. j e. S A. k e. S j <_ k ) |
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| 7 | lbreu | |- ( ( S C_ RR /\ E. j e. S A. k e. S j <_ k ) -> E! j e. S A. k e. S j <_ k ) |
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| 8 | 5 6 7 | syl2an2r | |- ( ( S C_ ( ZZ>= ` M ) /\ S =/= (/) ) -> E! j e. S A. k e. S j <_ k ) |