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Ordered pairs of scalars are sometimes called 2-dimensional vectors. (Technically, this is an abuse of terminology since an ordered pair need not be an element of a vector space.) The entries of an ordered pair can be other ordered pairs, enabling the recursive definition of ordered n-tuples (ordered lists of n objects).
In category theory, the product of two (or more) objects in a category is a notion designed to capture the essence behind constructions in other areas of mathematics such as the Cartesian product of sets, the direct product of groups or rings, and the product of topological spaces.
The axiom of pairing also allows for the definition of ordered pairs. For any objects and , the ordered pair is defined by the following: (,) = {{}, {,}}. Note that this definition satisfies the condition (,) = (,) = =. Ordered n-tuples can be defined recursively as follows:
It follows that, two ordered pairs (a,b) and (c,d) are equal if and only if a = c and b = d. Alternatively, an ordered pair can be formally thought of as a set {a,b} with a total order . (The notation ( a , b ) is also used to denote an open interval on the real number line , but the context should make it clear which meaning is intended.
2. A Kuratowski ordered pair is a definition of an ordered pair using only set theoretical concepts, specifically, the ordered pair (a, b) is defined as the set {{a}, {a, b}}. 3. "Kuratowski-Zorn lemma" is an alternative name for Zorn's lemma Kurepa 1. Đuro Kurepa 2. The Kurepa hypothesis states that Kurepa trees exist 3.
Formally, a group is an ordered pair of a set and a binary operation on this set that satisfies the group axioms. The set is called the underlying set of the group, and the operation is called the group operation or the group law. A group and its underlying set are thus two different mathematical objects.
In mathematics, a relation denotes some kind of relationship between two objects in a set, which may or may not hold. [1] As an example, " is less than " is a relation on the set of natural numbers ; it holds, for instance, between the values 1 and 3 (denoted as 1 < 3 ), and likewise between 3 and 4 (denoted as 3 < 4 ), but not between the ...
A multiset may be formally defined as an ordered pair (U, m) where U is a set called a universe or the underlying set, and : is a function from U to the nonnegative integers. The value m ( a ) {\displaystyle m(a)} for an element a ∈ U {\displaystyle a\in U} is called the multiplicity of a {\displaystyle a} in the ...