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9: Sets

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  • 9.1: Basics
    Object: any distinct entity
  • 9.2: Defining sets
    Remember that mathematical notation is about communicating mathematical information. Since a set is defined by its member objects, to communicate the details of a set of objects one needs to provide a means to decide whether any given object is or is not an element of the set.
  • 9.3: Subsets and equality of sets
    Often we want to distinguish a collection of certain “special” elements within a larger set of elements.
  • 9.4: Complement, union, and intersection
    First, it is often convenient to restrict the scope of the discussion.
  • 9.5: Cartesian Product
    the set of all possible ordered pairs of elements from two given sets A and B, where the first element in a pair is from A and the second is from B
  • 9.6: Alphabets and words
    any set can be considered an alphabet
  • 9.7: Sets of sets
    Sets can be made up of any kind of objects, even other sets! (But now we must be careful of the use of the phrase “contained in”.)
  • 9.8: Activities
  • 9.9: Exercises


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