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This document provides definitions and notations for key concepts in mathematics including: - Common number sets like natural numbers, integers, rational numbers, and real numbers. - Set notation like elements of a set, subsets, unions, and intersections. - Function notation including domain, codomain, and injections/surjections. - Other algebraic concepts like divisibility of numbers and sequences.

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1 Number Sets: I I N I I

This document provides definitions and notations for key concepts in mathematics including: - Common number sets like natural numbers, integers, rational numbers, and real numbers. - Set notation like elements of a set, subsets, unions, and intersections. - Function notation including domain, codomain, and injections/surjections. - Other algebraic concepts like divisibility of numbers and sequences.

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Analysis

June 14, 2015

Name:
MATH 317

What did that mean again?: Notation

Number Sets
N: The natural numbers {1, 2, 3, . . . }, excluding 0.
Z: The integers {. . . , 3, 2, 1, 0, 1, 2, 3, . . . }.
Q: The rational number A.K.A. {p/q | p, q Z and q 6= 0}.
R: The real numbers A.K.A Rational numbers and irrational numbers.
or : The empty set, or the set containing no elements; not the number zero 0.

Set Builder Notation

x S: x is an element of the set S.


x
/ S: x is not an element of the set S
A B: Set A is a subset of set B
A = B: Set A is equal to set B . . . i.e. A B and A B.
A B or A ( B : set A is a proper subset of set B . . . i.e. A B and A 6= B.
A B: The intersection of set A and B . . . i.e. elements that are in both A and B.
A B: The union of set A and B . . . i.e. elements are in either A or B.

Ai or

i=1

[
i=1

Ai : elements that are in Ai for all i N.

iN

Ai or

Ai : elements that are in some Ai for i N.

iN

{1, 2, 5}: the set containing the elements 1, 2, and 5.


{ elements | properties } or { elements : properties }: the set of elements such
that properties hold.

Ac : The set of elements not in set A.


A \ B: elements in A that are not in B
sup A: The supremum of the set A.
inf A: the infimum of the set A.

Function Notation

f : A B: The function f with domain A and codomain B.


f (a): For a function f : A B, f (a) is the unique element in B that is the image of
the element a A through f .
f : A , B: The injective (or one-to-one) function f with domain A and codomain B
f : A  B: The surjective (or onto) function f with domain A and codomain B.
f 1 (S): The preimage of the set S.

Algebra, Arithmetic, etc.

p|q: p divides q, i.e. q = pr for some r N.


(an )nN : the sequence of elements an for n N.

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