Index


a

  • Abelian group  386
  • Abel, Niels  391
  • absolute value, complex number 285
  • abstract algebra  369–370
  • abstraction  370
  • additive identity  434
  • adjacency matrix  329–330
    • definition  321
    • dominance graph  323, 324
  • aleph null 151
  • algebra  370
  • algebraically closed field 285
  • algebraic field  270, 437–438
  • algebraic functions  228
  • algebraic group  377
    • binary operation  385–387
    • Cayley table  388–390
    • definition  386
  • algebraic numbers  163–165
  • algebra of relations  192
  • algebra of sets  123
  • antecedent/premise sentence  25
  • antisymmetric relation  197–198
  • Aquinas, Thomas 143
  • Argand, Jean Robert 284
  • Aristotle  3, 143
  • arithmetic axioms for real numbers  270–271
  • arithmetic in modular arithmetic  222
  • arithmetization of analysis  40, 75
  • Ars Magna 281
  • Artin, Emil  274
  • associative operation  386, 433
  • assumption sentence  25
  • atomic sentences  6
  • axiomatic set theory  105
  • axiom of choice (AC)
    • comments on the  175–176
    • well‐ordering principle  176–177
  • axioms  52, 136

b

  • backwards compositions  235
  • backwards proof  57–59
  • Bell number  139, 215
  • Bernoulli, John  90
  • biconditional sentence  30–32
  • Bieberbach, L.  396
  • big number  129
  • bijection function 149
  • binary operation
    • associative property  386, 389
    • Cayley table  388
    • definition  385–386
    • identity element of  387
    • properties of  387
  • binary relation  184
  • binomial theorem  48
  • Birkhoff, Garrett  202
  • blood typing  194
  • Bolzano, Bernard  277
  • Boolean algebras  11
  • Boolean field  272, 279
  • Boole, George  11, 105, 202
  • boundary point  356
  • bounds on an open interval  201–202
  • Burke, Edmund  195
  • Burnside’s lemma  56

c

  • Cantor–Bernstein theorem  170–171
  • Cantor, George  105, 146, 156, 167, 350
  • Cantorian set theory  172
  • Cantor’s diagonalization theorem  157–158
  • Cantor’s discovery of larger sets  167–170
  • Cantor set  364–365
  • Cantor’s power set theorem  168–169
  • Cantor’s seminal contribution to infinity 146
  • Cantor’s seminal theorem  61
  • Cardano, Gerolamo 281
  • cardinality of sets
    • counting sheep 143–144
    • definition 147
    • early bouts with infinity 145–147
  • cardinality of the continuum  159
  • cardinal number 153
  • Carmichael totient function conjecture  240
  • Cartesian product  181–183, 191, 418
    • group  418
    • identities  193
  • Catalan numbers  140
  • Cauchy cycle notation  408
  • Cauchy, Louis  357, 409
  • Cayley table  378, 398
    • binary operation  388
    • cyclic group of 12 elements  391, 392
    • Klein four‐group  389–390
    • order 2 and 3, 388
    • order 4 group  389
    • relatively prime group  393
    • subgroup  430, 431
    • symmetric group S3415
    • symmetries  383–384
  • chromatic number of a graph  318–319
  • circle  105
  • classroom function  235
  • closed operations  270
  • closed set  363
    • definition  353
    • example  353–354
    • infinite union of  354
    • intersections and unions of  355, 363–365
    • limit point  358, 359
    • theorem of  354
  • codomain of the function  225
  • Cohen, Paul  172
  • combinations
    • counting paths  134
    • definition  131
    • game time  133
    • going to the movies  134
    • number of  132–133
    • number of seven‐game‐series  133–134
  • common rings  435–437
  • commutative algebraic system  377, 386
  • commutative group  433
  • commutative rings  433
  • compact sets  124
  • complement of a set  99–103
  • completeness axioms  270, 274
  • complete ordered field
    • algebraic field  278
    • arithmetic axioms for real numbers  270–271
    • Boolean field  272, 279
    • completeness axioms  270, 274
    • complex numbers  272
    • conventions and notation  271–272
    • field axioms  269
    • least upper bound and greatest lower bounds  274–277
    • not an ordered field  279
    • order axioms  269
    • ordered fields  273–274, 279
    • rational functions  272
    • rational numbers  272
    • well‐ordering principle  279
    • well‐ordering theorem  279
  • complex addition 289–290
  • complex division 291–292
  • complex exponential 286, 288
  • complex multiplication 291
  • complex numbers  272
    • as an algebraic field 283–284
    • basic arithmetic of 289–292
    • to Cartesian form 296
    • complex exponential and Euler’s theorem 286–288
    • complex variables in polar form 288–289
    • definition 282–283
    • de Moivre’s formula 297
    • fractional powers 297
    • imaginary numbers and two dimensions 284–285
    • introduction 281–282
    • polar coordinates 285–286
    • to polar form 296
    • primitive roots of unity 297
    • roots and powers of a 292–295
  • complex subtraction 290
  • compositions
    • backwards  235
    • of functions  228–232
    • of operators  236–237
    • of relations  189–190
  • compound sentences  6–11
  • conclusion sentence  25
  • conditional sentence  24–27
    • biconditional sentence  30–32
    • converse, inverse, and the contrapositive  28
    • law of the syllogism  28–29
    • understanding the  27–28
    • useful equivalence for the implication  29
  • congruence classes  217
  • congruent modulo  216
  • conjecture  58
  • conjugate of complex number 285
  • conjunctions  43–45
  • conjunctive normal forms (CNF)  16–17
  • connected sets  253
  • consequent sentence  25
  • consistent axioms  105
  • continuity
    • definition  360
    • open sets  360
  • continuous images of intervals  251
  • continuum hypothesis (CH)  171–172
  • contradiction  12, 14–15, 18
  • coprime  240
  • corollary  56
  • cosets  427–429, 432
  • countably infinite sets 151–154
  • counting
    • Bell number  139
    • Catalan numbers  140
    • combinations  131–135
    • distinguishable permutations  130–131, 138
    • famous apple problem  140
    • functions  138
    • lottery problem  141
    • multiplication principle  126–127
    • permutations  127–128
    • permutations of racers  128–130
    • pigeonhole principle  135–138
    • pizza cutter’s formula  141
    • relatively prime hard  142
    • relatively prime light  142
    • relatively prime medium  142
    • round robin tournament  141
    • single elimination tournament  139
    • Snail Darter Society  139
    • world series time  139
  • counting functions  127
  • counting partitions  215
  • counting subsets  126–127
  • cycle notation  416
    • for permutations  408–409
    • products of permutations  409–411
  • cyclic group  391–393
    • of order 12, 391
    • ring  436–437
    • of subgroup  426–427

d

  • Decartes, Rene  27, 282
  • Dedekind cut
    • of rational numbers  277
    • real numbers  263–266
  • Dedekind, Richard  202, 263, 433
  • de Fermat, Pierre  90
  • degrees of symmetry  372
  • de la Vallee Poussin  60
  • delta  357
  • δ‐neighborhood  350
  • de Moivre’s formula 297
  • DeMorgan, Augustus  11, 83
  • DeMorgan’s laws  12–13, 353
  • denial of sentences  19
  • dense orders  209–210
  • descent proof  83
  • difference of two sets  104
  • digital logical circuits I, 22
  • digital logical circuits II, 23
  • digraph. see directed graphs
  • dihedral group  396–397
  • dihedral group D2382
  • dihedral multiplication table  382
  • Diophantine equation  77–78
  • directed edges  321
  • directed graphs  186–188
    • adjacency matrix of  321
    • definition  321
    • with directed edges  321, 322
    • dominance graphs
      • with five vertices  322
      • in social networking  322–325
    • dynamic programming  327–329
    • game time  333
    • Hasse diagrams  199–200, 205, 206, 207
    • PageRank system  325–327
    • tournament graphs  322
  • direct predecessor  321
  • direct product of groups  399, 418
  • direct proofs  54–56, 65, 88
  • direct successor  321
  • Dirichlet definition of a function  224–225
  • Dirichlet, Peter Gustav Lejeune  138, 224–225, 227
  • Dirichlet principle. see pigeonhole principle
  • Dirichlet’s function  252–253
  • disjoint sets  104, 112
  • disjoint subsets  273
  • disjunctions  43–45
  • disjunctive normal forms (DNF)  16–17, 20–21
  • distinguishable permutations  130–131, 138
  • distributive laws  33
  • distributive operation  434
  • division property  197–198
  • domain of a composition  229
  • domain of the function  225
  • domain of the relation  188
  • dominance graphs
    • with five vertices  322
    • round‐robin tournaments  322
    • in social networking
      • adjacency matrix  323, 324
      • dominance patterns  323
      • first‐stage dominances  323
      • group leader  324
      • second‐stage dominances  324
      • third‐order dominances  325
  • double‐holed torus  347
  • doughnut and coffee cup  335, 336, 345
  • drawer principle  138
  • dynamic programming  327–329, 332

e

  • Einstein, Albert  4
  • empty set  99–103
  • enantiomorphic shape  378
  • epsilon  357
  • equality of sets  99–103
  • equilateral triangle
    • commutative operations  378–380
    • inverse symmetries  380
    • rotational symmetry  373, 377
    • symmetries of  419
  • equivalence classes  214–215
    • in the plane  218–219
  • equivalence relation
    • in analysis  220
    • arithmetic in modular arithmetic  222
    • in calculus  220
    • counting  221
    • counting partitions  215
    • definition  212–213
    • equivalence classes in logic  221
    • equivalence sets of polynomials  221
    • finding equivalence classes  220
    • finding the  220
    • modular arithmetic  216–219, 221
    • partitioning property of the  214–215
    • partition of a set  213–214
    • similar matrices  221
    • unusual  220
  • equivalence sets of polynomials  221
  • equivalence, tautology, and contradiction  12
  • equivalent intervals  159–160
  • equivalent sets 147, 154
  • Euclidean geometry  334
  • Euclid’s proof  61
  • Euler characteristic
    • planar graphs  341, 345
    • for planar polygons  345
    • polyhedra  341–342
    • surfaces  342–344
  • Euler cycle  303
  • Euler diagram  25–26
  • Euler, Leonard  60, 99, 227, 301
  • Euler paths  313–315
    • and circuits  303–304
  • Euler’s characteristic for planar graphs  309–311
  • Euler’s conjecture  80
  • Euler’s formula  346
  • Euler’s original graph theorem  304
  • Euler’s proof of the PNT  60
  • Euler’s theorem  48, 287
  • Euler totient function  68, 240
  • Euler tour  304, 311–313
  • even and odd natural numbers 154
  • even integer  54
  • exclusive OR, 19
  • existential quantifiers  38–39
  • experimental sciences  54
  • extended laws for sets  119–120
  • exterior point of set  356

f

  • factor group  429
  • families of sets
    • algebra of sets  123
    • compact sets  124
    • extended laws for sets  119–120
    • identity of an indexed family  123
    • indexed family  118
    • index set  115
    • infinite intersections and unions  116–117
    • infinite intersections of unions  117–118
    • in the plane  122–123
    • set projection  118–119
    • sets of length zero  123–124
    • topologies on a set  120–121, 124
    • unions and intersections of  116, 122
  • famous identity, mathematical induction  85–86
  • Fermat’s last theorem  48
  • Ferrers diagram  210–211
  • Fibonacci sequence  93
  • field
    • algebraic field  437–438
    • arithmetic in Z3441
    • definition  437
    • finite  438–440
    • modulo 3, 441
  • field axioms  269
  • fields of functions  272
  • finite cyclic group  391, 392
  • finite field  438–440
  • finite group  386
  • first‐order logic. see predicate logic
  • first‐stage dominances  323
  • Fischer, M.E., 125
  • fluent  62
  • fluxion  62
  • Fourier, Joseph  227
  • four symmetries, rectangle  374, 375
  • Fraenkel, Abraham  105, 172, 173
  • Frege, Gottlob  43
  • Frege–Russell thesis  78
  • functional analysis  232
  • functional equation  237
  • function relation
    • backwards compositions  235
    • brief history of the  227
    • Carmichael totient function conjecture  240
    • classroom function  235
    • composition of operators  236–237
    • compositions  228–232, 235
    • counting functions  239, 240
    • Dirichlet definition  224–225
    • Euler totient function  240
    • examples  226
    • functional equation  237
    • graphing  234
    • graphing a composition  236
    • injections, surjections, bijections  237, 238
    • inverse functions  232–234, 238
    • mystery function  234
    • as ordered pairs  238
    • recursive function  237
    • relation definition of a  227–228
    • shifting domain of a composition  236
    • testing  234
  • functions of functions  232
  • fundamental theorem of arithmetic  59, 89, 90–91

g

  • Galileo  3, 143, 227
  • Galois, Evariste  385, 391
  • Galois fields  438
  • Galois finite fields  272
  • game time, directed graphs  333
  • Gauss, Carl 282
  • Gauss, Carl Friedrich  217
  • Gauss, Karl Friedrich  60
  • generalized integers  433
  • generator  391
  • geometric principle by induction  92
  • geometric topology
    • Euler’s characteristic in  342–344
    • homeomorphisms  336, 339
    • household objects with  336, 337
    • iconic doughnut and coffee cup  335, 336
    • Mobius strip  335
    • topological fingerprints  334, 335
    • topological invariants  339–340
    • topologically equivalent objects  336–338
  • geometry  391
  • Gödel, Kurt  172
  • Gödel’s incompleteness theorem  172
  • Goldbach conjecture  58
  • Google’s PageRank system  325
  • Google’s search engine models  325, 327
  • graph  182
  • graph of the function  225
  • graph theory
    • chromatic number of a graph  318–319
    • definition  302
    • Euler circuits  303–304
    • Euler paths  303–304, 313–315
    • Euler’s characteristic for planar graphs  309–311
    • Euler tour  311–313
    • knight’s tour  317–318
    • Konigsberg bridge problem  304–306
    • main ingredients of  302–303
    • Moser spindle  319
    • Platonic solids  316
    • regular graph  318
    • weighted graphs  307–308
  • greatest lower bound (glb)  200–204
  • grid points  258–259
  • group dominance  330, 331
  • group leader  324
  • group theory
    • algebraic group
      • binary operation  385–387
      • Cayley table  388–390
      • definition  386
    • cyclic groups  391–393
    • dihedral  396–397
    • isomorphic groups  393–395
    • multiplying groups  397
  • guaranteed subset  101

h

  • Hadamard, Jacques  60, 232
  • Hamiltonian graph  313–315
  • Hamiltonian tour  313–315
  • Hasse diagrams and directed graphs  199–200, 205, 206, 207
  • Hausdorff, Felix  199
  • head/source  321
  • Heisenberg group  399
  • higher‐order relations  188
  • Hilbert, David  45, 170, 396
  • homeomorphic sets  336
  • homeomorphism
    • definition  336
    • as equivalence relations  339
  • homomorphisms  401–402
  • Huygens, Christian  305

i

  • identity  386, 387
    • symmetry  376
  • If and Only If theorems  80–81
  • image of a set
    • complement identity  252
    • connected sets  253
    • continuous images of intervals  251
    • definition  243
    • Dirichlet’s function  252–253
    • examples  243–245
    • image of a union  252
    • interpretation of images  251
    • intersections and unions  245–250
    • inverse images  252
    • inverse of union  252
    • medical imaging  242
  • image of the function  225
  • imaginary numbers and two dimensions 284–285
  • imaginary part of the complex number 284
  • incompleteness theorem  45
  • in‐degree  322
  • independent axioms  105
  • indexed family  118
  • index set  115
  • indirect proofs  54
  • induction in calculus  86–87
  • inequality by induction  87–88
  • inference  27
  • infinite arbitrary sets 151
  • infinite group  401
  • infinite intersections and unions  116–117
  • infinite intersections of unions  117–118
  • infinite number of prime numbers  59–60
  • infinite order  386
  • infinite sets 154
  • injection  230–231
  • injective function 148, 154
  • injective relation  192
  • integers  258–260
  • integrated circuit graph  309–311
  • interior point of set  355
  • intermediate value theorem  48
  • International Congress of Mathematicians  396
  • Internet Research  333, 348
  • interpretation of images  251
  • intersection of a family  116
  • intersection of sets  104
  • intersections and unions, image of a set  245–250
  • inverse  386, 387
    • of permutations  408
  • inverse functions  232–234, 238
  • inverse image of a set  243
  • inverse images in topology  249–250
  • inverse relations  189, 192–193
  • irrational number  165, 166, 265
  • isomorphic groups  393–395, 394, 400, 418
  • isomorphism  394, 395

k

  • Kelly, John  32
  • Kirchhoff, Gustav  305
  • Klein four‐group  388–390, 398–399, 422, 431
  • Kline, Morris  227
  • knight’s tour  317–318
  • Konigsberg bridge problem  304–306
  • Kruskal’s algorithm  307

l

  • Lagrange, Joseph‐Louis  391, 422
  • Lagrange’s Theorem  422
  • Landau’s theorem  332
  • Latin square  388, 401
  • lattice  207–209
  • law of the excluded middle  13, 74
  • law of the syllogism  28–29
  • least upper bound (lub)  200–204
    • axiom  274
    • and greatest lower bounds  274–277
  • Legendre, A.M., 60
  • Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm  10, 227, 305
  • lemma  56
  • Lévy, Paul  232
  • Liar paradox  6
  • limit point  361–362
  • Lincoln, Abraham  380
  • line symmetry  371
  • Liouville constant  163, 166
  • Liouville, Joseph  166, 385
  • Listing, Johann  342
  • logical AND, 7
    • for IP addresses  20
  • logical connectives  6
  • logical disjunction  8
  • logically equivalent sentences  12
  • logical OR, 7
  • logical sentences from truth tables  15
  • logicism  43
  • logistic thesis  78
  • lower bounds  200–204
  • Lukasiewicz, Jan  36

m

  • Markov Chain  327
  • Mary, Clever  91–92
  • mathematical induction
    • direct proof or proof by induction  88
    • famous identity  85–86
    • induction in calculus  86–87
    • inequality by induction  87–88
    • introduction to  83–84
    • principle of  84
    • strong induction  89–91
  • mathematical proofs
    • analysis of  54–55
    • axioms  52
    • counterexample  66
    • direct proof  65
    • divisibility  65–66
    • Euler’s totient function  68
    • modus operandi for proving theorems  55–62
    • necessary and sufficient conditions  62–65
    • Pick’s amazing formula  68–69
    • proposition  52
    • syllogisms  67–68
    • theorem  52
    • twin prime conjecture  69–70
    • types of  53–54
  • mathematics, definitions  3–4
  • Maurolico, Francesco  90
  • maximal element  201
  • Mersenne primes  98
  • minimal element  201
  • minimum spanning tree  307
  • mirror symmetry  371
  • Mirzakhani, Maryam  4
  • Möbius band  344–345
  • Mobius strip  335, 342, 344–345
  • modern algebra  370
  • modular algebra  441, 442
  • modular arithmetic  216–219, 221
  • modulo 3 field  441
  • modulo 4 multiplication  400
  • modulo 5 multiplication  399
  • modus operandi, for proving theorems  55–62
  • Modus Ponens  31, 36
  • Modus Tollens  36
  • Moser spindle  319
  • multiplication principle  126–127
  • multiplication rule  126
  • multiplicative identity  434, 440
  • multiplicative inverse  441
  • multiplying groups  397
  • multiplying permutations  406–407

n

  • naive set theory  105
    • vs. axiomatic set theory  105
  • n‐ary relation  188
  • NASC for disjoint sets  112
  • necessary and sufficient conditions (NASC)  62–65
  • negation of quantified propositions  42–43
  • negative integers  260
  • Noether, Emmy  377, 433
  • non‐Cantorian set theory  172
  • nonconvex polyhedra  346
  • nonequivalence relations  213, 219–220
  • nonnegative integers  260
  • nonnegative real number 285
  • nonobvious statement  35–36
  • nonzero members  273
  • normal subgroups  428
  • NOT operator  7
  • null set. see empty set
  • number theory  391

o

  • octic group  424–426
  • odd integer  54
  • one‐to‐one correspondence function 149, 230
  • one‐to‐one function 148, 230
  • onto function 148–149, 230
  • open interval, bounds on an  201–202
  • open set  102, 120
    • characterization of  353
    • continuous image of  360, 365
    • definition of  350, 359
    • finite intersection  352
    • infinite intersection  353
    • intersection of  365
    • real numbers  351
    • union  351–353
  • order  386
  • order axioms  269
  • ordered fields  273–274, 279
  • order matters  41–42
  • order relations
    • complex numbers  206–207
    • composition of partial orders  210
    • definition  195–196
    • dense orders  209–210
    • division property  197–198
    • finding relations  204
    • functions  204
    • Hasse diagrams and directed graphs  199–200, 205, 206, 207
    • inverse of a partial order  210
    • lattice of partitions  209
    • lattices  208–209
    • partially ordered sets  198
    • partitions of a natural number  210–211
    • sups and infs  205
    • symmetric relation  199
    • testing  204
    • total order and symmetric relations  198–199
    • upper and lower bounds  205
    • upper bounds, lower bounds, glb, and lub  200–204
  • ordinal number 153
  • out‐degree  322

p

  • p‐adic number fields  272
  • PageRank system  325–327, 326
  • partially ordered sets  198, 202
  • partial order  195–196
  • partition function  210
  • partition of a set  213–214
  • Pascal, Blaise  90
  • Peano, Giuseppe  78, 90, 104, 228
  • Peano’s axioms  90, 93
  • Peirce, Benjamin  25
  • Peirce, Charles Saunders  202
  • Perelman, Grigori  58
  • permutations  127–128
    • alternating group  415
    • composition of  416–417
    • cycle notation for  408–409
    • decomposition of  417
    • distinguishable  130–131, 138
    • finding  416
    • identity  416
    • inverses of  408
    • mapping  403, 404
    • matrices  418
    • product of  405–407
    • of racers  128–130
    • symmetric group S3414–415
    • symmetric group Sn413
    • transposition  411–413
    • visualization of  404
  • Pick’s amazing formula  68–69
  • Pierce, Charles Saunders  56, 78
  • pigeonhole principle  135–138
  • pizza cutter’s formula  141
  • planar graphs, Euler’s characteristic for  309–311
  • plane symmetry  374
  • platonic solids  316, 341
  • Poincare Conjecture  58
  • points  351
  • point‐set topology
    • boundary  356
    • calculus  360–361
    • closed set  353–355
    • concepts of  349
    • exterior point  356
    • interior  355–357
    • interiors, boundaries, and exteriors of  356–357, 361–362
    • limit point  357–358
    • open set  350–353
    • topological spaces  358–360
  • polar coordinates 285–286
  • polyhedron  341
  • Post, Emil  25
  • power set  101
  • predicate logic
    • conjunctions and disjunctions in  43–45
    • existential and universal quantifiers  38–39
    • form  79–80
    • more than one variable in a proposition  39–40
    • negation of quantified propositions  42–43
    • order matters  41–42
  • predicates  38
  • prime number  54
  • prime number theorem (PNT)  59
  • principal root 294
  • principle argument of complex number 286
  • principle of mathematical induction  83, 84
  • product of permutations
    • in cycle notation  409–411
    • definition  405
    • example  406–407
  • proof by contradiction  60–62
  • proof by contrapositive  56–57
  • proof by demonstration  73
  • proof by induction  88
  • proofs in predicate logic
    • casting out 9s  82
    • by contradiction for quantifiers  74–75
    • counterexamples  80
    • If and Only If theorems  80–81
    • involving quantifiers  71–74
    • negation  80
    • predicate logic form  79–80
    • unending interesting properties of numbers  75–77
    • unique existential quantification  77–79
  • proofs, mathematical
    • analysis of  54–55
    • axioms  52
    • counterexample  66
    • direct proof  65
    • divisibility  65–66
    • Euler’s totient function  68
    • modus operandi for proving theorems  55–62
    • necessary and sufficient conditions  62–65
    • Pick’s amazing formula  68–69
    • proposition  52
    • syllogisms  67–68
    • theorem  52
    • twin prime conjecture  69–70
    • types of  53–54
  • proper subgroups  420
  • proper subset  99
  • propositions  38. See also sentences
    • negation of quantified  42–43
  • Pythagoras’proof  61
  • Pythagorean theorem  78

q

  • quantifiers  38, 71–74
    • proofs by contradiction  74–75
  • quotient group  429–430
  • quotient set  217

r

  • radial symmetry  372
  • range of the function  225
  • range of the relation  188
  • ranking webpages  333
  • rational functions  272
  • rationalizing the denominator 292
  • rational numbers 153–154, 272
    • and the completeness axiom  277
  • rationals  260–262
  • real analysis  43, 102
  • real numbers
    • arithmetic axioms for  270–271
    • arithmetic of the  266
    • building of the  258
    • construction of the integers  258–260
    • construction of the rationals  260–262
    • decimal representations  267
    • decimal to fractions  267
    • Dedekind cut  263–266
    • definition  262–263
    • equivalence relation  266–267
    • irrational number  267–268
    • mathematical carpentry  257
    • synthetic approach  257
  • real part of the complex number 284
  • recursive function  237
  • reductio ad absurdum  55
  • reflections symmetry  374
  • reflective symmetry  371, 373
  • reflexive relation  197, 212
  • regular graph  318
  • regular polygons  396
  • relations
    • algebra of  192
    • binary  183–184, 193–194
    • blood typing  194
    • Cartesian product identities  193
    • composition of  189–190, 193
    • counting  193
    • definition  184
    • directed graphs  186–188
    • domain and range of a  188
    • graphing a  191
    • graphing relations and their inverses  193
    • identifying  185–186
    • important types of  192
    • inverse  192–193
    • inverses and compositions  189
    • meaning of  192
    • naming a  192
    • number of  193
    • typical  185
  • relatively prime group  393, 395, 400
  • residue classes  217
  • ring
    • addition and multiplication  434
    • common rings  435–437
    • commutative  434
    • definition  433
    • generalized integers  433
    • of matrices  440
    • with multiplicative identity  434, 440
    • multiplicative inverse  441
    • type of  442
    • with zero divisors  434
  • Rota, GianCarlo  51
  • rotational symmetry
    • of 180°, 374
    • of cube  381
    • equilateral triangle  373, 377
    • levels of  372
    • polygons  373
    • of polyhedra  380–381
    • rectangle  375
  • rotation permutation  411–412
  • round‐robin tournaments  322, 331
  • “rubber‐sheet” geometry  334
  • rules of inference  4
  • Russell Barber paradox  6
  • Russell, Bertrand  25, 172, 173, 176, 258
  • Russell’s paradox  105, 173

s

  • same cardinality/cardinality number 147
  • satisfiable sentence  50
  • Schubfachprinzip  138
  • second‐order logic  56, 78
  • second‐stage dominances  324
  • sentences
    • biconditional  30–32
    • compound  6–11
    • definition  4
    • logically equivalent  12
    • negation of a  8–9
    • satisfiable  50
    • simple (or atomic)  6
    • well‐formed  28
  • sentential logic
    • compound sentences  6–11
    • De Morgan’s laws  12–13
    • disjunctive and conjunctive normal forms  16–17
    • equivalence, tautology, and contradiction  12
    • getting into  4–6
    • logical sentences from truth tables  15
    • tautology  13–15
  • set inclusion  104
  • set intersection  104
  • set projection  118–119
  • sets
    • computer representation of  113–114
    • De Morgan’s laws  108–109, 114
    • difference between  112
    • distributive law  112
    • vs. logic  107–108
    • logic, and arithmetic  109
    • members, and subsets  111
    • and membership  97–99
    • NASC for disjoint sets  112
    • notation  109–110
    • power sets  111
    • relations with truth tables  113
    • union, intersection, and difference of  103–105
    • universe, subset, equality, complement, empty  99–103
    • venn diagrams of  105–106
  • set theory, need for axioms in  172–173
  • set union  104
  • simple sentences  6, 17
  • six roots of unity 294
  • Snail Darter Society  139
  • social networking, dominance graphs  322–324
  • spanning tree  307
  • special ring  435, 436, 442
  • strict order  196, 273
  • strong induction  88, 89–91
  • subgroup
    • Cayley table  430, 431
    • center of a group  431
    • cosets  427–429, 432
    • of cyclic groups  426–427
    • definition  420
    • generated by R240431
    • Hasse diagram for  431
    • Klein four‐group  422
    • matrix  431
    • proper  420
    • quotient group  429–430
    • rotational symmetries of equilateral triangle  420
    • of symmetries  420–421
    • test of  422–426
    • of Z6430
    • of Z8431
    • of Z11431
  • subset  99–103
  • surjection  232
  • surjective function 148–149, 154
  • surjective relation  192
  • syllogisms  22
    • law of the  28–29
    • proofs, mathematical  67–68
  • symbols  4
  • symmetric group S2417
  • symmetric group S3414–415
  • symmetric group Sn403, 413
  • symmetric relation  198–199, 212
  • symmetry
    • axes  380
    • in calculus  371
    • definition of  374
    • of differential equation  384
    • of ellipse  382
    • of equilateral triangle  377–381
    • groups  383
    • mapping/transformation  373–374
    • observations  377
    • of parallelogram  382
    • of rectangle  374–377
    • rotational (see rotational symmetry)
    • of square  383
    • of tetrahedron  383
    • in two dimensions  371–373

t

  • tail/sink  321
  • tautology  12, 13–15, 18
  • ternary relation  188
  • theorem  52
  • theory of algebraic equations  391
  • third‐stage dominances  325
  • three‐valued logic  36
  • tiny topologies  121
  • topological chemistry  338
  • topological fingerprints  334, 335
  • topological invariants  339–340
  • topologically equivalent, definition  335
  • topologically equivalent objects
    • homeomorphic letters  337–338
    • open real intervals  339
  • topological properties  335
  • topological space  358–360, 359
  • topologies on a set  120–121, 124
  • topology  338, 342
  • toroidal polyhedra  346–347
  • totality of elements  99
  • total order  273
    • and symmetric relations  198–199
  • tournament graphs. see dominance graphs
  • transcendental functions  228
  • transcendental numbers  163–165
  • transfinite numbers  169
  • transition matrix  326
  • transitive relation  198, 212
  • transitive subsets  101–102
  • translations symmetry  374
  • transposition  411–413, 417
  • transpositions commute  417
  • tree  307
  • triangle graph  309–310
  • triple‐hole torus  347, 348
  • truncated cube  346
  • truncated solid  346
  • truth tables  18
    • alternate forms for  19–20
    • logical equivalences  33
    • logical sentences from  15
  • twin prime conjecture  69–70
  • two‐cycle  411–413, 417
  • type 1 Dedekind cut  264
  • type 2 Dedekind cut  264
  • type 3 Dedekind cut  264–265
  • typical relation  185

u

  • uncountable cardinality  156
  • uncountable set  156, 159
    • algebraic numbers  165
    • all lines are equal  160
    • Cantor’s diagonalization theorem  157–158
    • Cantor’s surprise  161–165
    • cardinality of functions  165
    • countable plus singleton  165
    • definition  156
    • equivalent intervals  159–160
    • irrational numbers  165, 166
    • Liouville constant  166
    • more real numbers than natural numbers  158–159
  • unending interesting properties of numbers  75–77
  • union of a family  116
  • union of sets  103–104
  • unions and intersections  116, 122
  • unity identity  434
  • universal direct proof  72–73
  • universal quantifier  38–39, 71
  • universe set  99–103
  • unusual equivalence relation  220
  • upper bounds  200–204
  • Urysohn’s lemma  56

v

  • variable quantity  227
  • variables  38
  • Veblen, Oswald  273
  • Venn diagram  25
  • Venn, George  105
  • visual proof  86
  • Volterra, Vito  232
  • Vorstudien zur Topologie342

w

  • weak induction  88
  • web graph of Internet  325
  • Weierstrass, Karl  40, 75, 357
  • weighted graphs  307–308
  • well‐formed sentences  28
  • well‐ordered integers  177
  • well‐ordering principle  176–177, 279
  • well‐ordering theorem  279
  • Wessel, Casper 284
  • Wittgenstein, Ludwig  25

x

  • Xenocrates  405

z

  • Zeno of Elea 145
  • Zeno’s paradox 145
  • Zermelo, Ernst  105, 172, 173
  • Zermelo–Fraenkel (ZF) axioms  105, 173–175
  • zero divisors  434, 442
  • zero identity  434
  • Zorn’s lemma  56
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