Bijective bounded linear operator is invertible

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The following is an exercise from Halmos book "A Hilbert space problem book" :

Exercise: If $H$ and $K$ are Hilbert spaces, and if $A$ is a bounded linear transformation that maps $H$ one to one and onto $K$, then $A$ is invertible.

He gives the following solution for this:

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I do not know why he consider the operator $0$ in the role of $A^*$. Clearly $0$ is not bijective, so why does he state this part? Please help me. Thanks.

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For operator $A^*=0$ the condition $\Vert A^*g\Vert=1$ is always false. By the fundamental rules of logic False implies anything and in particular that $\Vert g\Vert\leq 1/\delta$.

One could say for example that $\Vert A^*g\Vert=1\implies\pi=10^5$ and would be absolutely correct.