Is this graph connected or path-connected?

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I was thinking about a map f such that $Graph(f)$ is connected but it is not path connected, this is the map:

$$f(x)=\left\{\begin{array}{cl} \sqrt{x^2-1} &\ x\in \mathbb{Q} \\ -\sqrt{x^2-1} &\ x \in \mathbb{R}-\mathbb{Q} \end{array}\right.$$

It is clear that it is not path connected in each segment that connects two points there are rational and irrational numbers, so my question is:

It is connected?

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it is not connected because it can be represented as the union of two disjoint non-empty open sets:

$$A := (-2,2) \times \left(-2,\sqrt{1-\frac{\pi^2}{4^2}}\right)$$

$$B := (-2,2) \times \left(\sqrt{1-\frac{\pi^2}{4^2}},2\right)$$

As $A \cap B = \varnothing$ and $ Graph(f) \subset A \cup B$ so it is not connected.