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This article lists mathematical properties and laws of sets, involving the set-theoretic operations of union, intersection, and complementation and the relations of set equality and set inclusion. It also provides systematic procedures for evaluating expressions, and performing calculations, involving these operations and relations.
In non-well-founded set theories, the foundation axiom of ZFC is replaced by axioms implying its negation. The study of non-well-founded sets was initiated by Dmitry Mirimanoff in a series of papers between 1917 and 1920, in which he formulated the distinction between well-founded and non-well-founded sets; he did not regard well-foundedness as ...
Kurt Gödel proved in 1940 that the negation of the continuum hypothesis, i.e., the existence of a set with intermediate cardinality, could not be proved in standard set theory. [2] The second half of the independence of the continuum hypothesis – i.e., unprovability of the nonexistence of an intermediate-sized set – was proved in 1963 by ...
Also, the union of a sequence of positive or negative sets is also positive or negative; more formally, if ,, … is a sequence of positive sets, then = is also a positive set; the same is true if the word "positive" is replaced by "negative". A set which is both positive and negative is a -null set, for if is a measurable subset of a positive ...
The left figure below shows a binary decision tree (the reduction rules are not applied), and a truth table, each representing the function (,,).In the tree on the left, the value of the function can be determined for a given variable assignment by following a path down the graph to a terminal.
The algebra of sets is the set-theoretic analogue of the algebra of numbers. Just as arithmetic addition and multiplication are associative and commutative, so are set union and intersection; just as the arithmetic relation "less than or equal" is reflexive, antisymmetric and transitive, so is the set relation of "subset".
In mathematics, Suslin's problem is a question about totally ordered sets posed by Mikhail Yakovlevich Suslin () and published posthumously.It has been shown to be independent of the standard axiomatic system of set theory known as ZFC; Solovay & Tennenbaum (1971) showed that the statement can neither be proven nor disproven from those axioms, assuming ZF is consistent.
Using first-order logic primitive symbols, the axiom can be expressed as follows: [2] ( ( ()) ( ( (( =))))). In English, this sentence means: "there exists a set 𝐈 such that the empty set is an element of it, and for every element of 𝐈, there exists an element of 𝐈 such that is an element of , the elements of are also elements of , and nothing else is an element of ."