MA2108 Note 1
Definitions
- A set is an unordered collection of unique elements. Examples are natural numbers, integers, rational numbers, and real numbers
- Cartesian product of
$A$ and$B$ is$A \times B = \lbrace(a, b) : a \in A, b \in B\rbrace$ - A function from set
$A$ to set$B$ is a rule of correspondence that assigns each element$x \in A$ to uniquely determined element$f(x) \in B$ - Set
$A$ is called the domain of$f$ - Set
$B$ is the codomain of$f$ - The set
$f(A) = \lbrace(x) : x \in A\rbrace$ is called the range of$f$ - Althought
$D(f) = A$ , we only have$R(f) \subseteq B$