(a) Prove $\exp:\R \to \R^{\times}$ is an injective group homomorphism.
We first prove that $\exp$ is a group homomorphism.
Let $x, y \in \R$. Then we have
\begin{align*}
\exp(x+y)&=e^{x+y}\\
&=e^x e^y\\
&=\exp(x)\exp(y).
\end{align*}
Thus, the map $\exp$ is a group homomorphism.
To show that $\exp$ is injective, suppose $\exp(x)=\exp(y)$ for $x, y\in \R$.
This implies that we have
\[e^{x}=e^{y},\]
and thus $x=y$ by taking $\log$ of both sides.
Hence $\exp$ is an injective group homomorphism.
(b) Prove that the additive group $\R$ is isomorphic to the multiplicative group $\R^{+}$.
Since the image of $\exp:\R \to \R^{\times}$ consists of positive numbers, we can restrict the codomain of $\exp$ to $\R^{+}$, and we have the injective homomorphism
\[\exp: \R \to \R^{+}.\]
It suffices to show that this homomorphism is surjective.
For any $y\in \R^{+}$, we have $\log(y)\in \R$ and
\[\exp(\log(y))=e^{\log(y)}=y.\]
Thus, $\exp: \R \to \R^{+}$ is a bijective homomorphism, hence isomorphism of groups.
This proves that the additive group $\R$ is isomorphic to the multiplicative group $\R^{+}$.
Note that the inverse homomorphism is given by
\[\log: \R^{+} \to \R\]
sending $x\in \R^{+}$ to $\log(x)$.
This is a group homomorphism since we have for $x, y \in \R^{+}$,
\begin{align*}
\log(xy)=\log(x)+\log(y)
\end{align*}
by the property of the log function.
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