Problem
A set is a collection of objects of any specified kind, the objects are called elements or members, the objects in one set cannot repeat, namely and are identical sets. We denote a set by a capital letter , or and write if is an element of , and if it is not. The notation means that the set consists of the elements . The empty or void set, , has no elements. If all elements of are also in , then we call a subset of and we write . It is an axiom that the sets and are equal if they have the same elements. Namely, is a subset of and is a subset of at the same time.
For any sets and , we define their union , intersection , and the difference as follows:
the union is the set of all elements that belong to or ;
the intersection is the set of elements that belong to both and ;
the difference consists of those that are do not belong to .
Sometimes it is useful to draw sets as Venn diagrams, on the diagram below the pink circle represents the set , the yellow circle represents the set , the orange part is the intersection , the pink part is , the yellow part is , and the whole picture is the union .
