A is a subset of B if all elements of A are elements of B.
⊆
Proper Subset
A is a proper subset of B if A is a subset of B and A is not equal to B
⊂
UNION
∪
A + B
INTERSECTION
∩
everything the same in A + B
DISJOINT
A ∩ B = ∅
LESS
A - B (A\B) = A - (A ∩ B)
COMPLEMENT
A complement is everything in U outside of A (U\A)
Commutative
Associative
Distributive
De Morgan Laws
(A ∩ B) complement
= A complement ∪ B
complement
(A ∪ B)^c = A^c ∩ B^c
Involutivity of the Complement
(A^c)^c) = A
"An involution is a map such that
applying it twice gives the
(original) identity. Familiar
examples: reflecting across the
x-axis, the y-axis, or the origin in
the plane.
∅ and {∅} are different objects. ∅ has no elements, whereas {∅} has one element.
P(A) and A are viewed as living in separate world to avoid phenomena like Russell's paradox.
If A has n elements, then P(A) has 2^n elements.
In the ZFC (Zermelo Fraenkel set theory) standard
system, it is an axion of set theory that every set has
a power set, which implies no set consisting of all
possible sets could exist, else what would it power
set be?