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Set Theory

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  • Cartesian Products: All Ordered Pairs

    Every combination of two sets, with distinct roles for the first and second positions.

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    Set Theory
  • Decomposing a union into disjoint parts

    How to partition a union into “only A,” “only B,” and the shared part without losing or double-counting elements.

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    Set Theory
  • Distributivity of set operations

    How to distribute union and intersection across parentheses, and why both identities hold.

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    Set Theory
  • De Morgan’s laws

    Why negation exchanges union and intersection, and how element membership proves both identities.

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    Set Theory
  • Set complement

    Why “everything outside a set” is meaningful only after its universe has been fixed.

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    Set Theory
  • Set difference

    How to remove the second set’s elements from the first, and why reversing the arguments changes the result.

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    Set Theory
  • Set intersection

    How to keep only shared elements, and why a family intersection requires membership in every set.

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    Set Theory
  • Set union

    Why membership in any one set is enough for a union, including a whole indexed family.

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    Set Theory
  • Set-Builder Notation: Filtering Elements

    How a candidate domain and a predicate define a set of qualifying elements.

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    Set Theory
  • Finite Set Cardinality: Counting Elements

    Counting distinct elements, ignoring duplicates, and distinguishing two kinds of emptiness.

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    Set Theory
  • Set inclusion

    How to check that every element of one set is in another, and why inclusion differs from membership.

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    Set Theory
  • Set equality

    How to prove set equality element by element or through two inclusions, and why equal size is not enough.

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    Set Theory
  • Set membership

    What membership states, why order and repetition do not change a set, and how an empty set differs from a set containing it.

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    Set Theory