Relations

Whitehead, Carol

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Carol Whitehead²

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Given a set A, we often wish to express the fact that a relation exists between certain pairs of elements of A. The relation is usually expressed in the form of a statement which is true for some pairs of elements in the set and false for the others.

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Goldsmiths’ College, University of London, UK
Carol Whitehead (Senior Lecturer in Mathematics)

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Whitehead, C. (1988). Relations. In: Guide to Abstract Algebra. Macmillan Mathematical Guides. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09041-9_2

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