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In Chapter 2 we introduced sets: what they are, how to build new ones from old ones, and how to decompose them into subsets. In this chapter we will begin to consider more dynamic set interactions, called functions, which link the elements of one set to elements of another in a rather special way.
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Gerstein, L.J. (2012). Functions. In: Introduction to Mathematical Structures and Proofs. Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4265-3_3
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