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Introduction: The set is a fundamental concept of mathematics and computer science. Many problems in engineering deal with operations on sets. The concept of a set, the rules for forming sets (algebra of sets), the relationships between elements of sets (relations, mappings) and the corresponding classification of mathematics according to algebraic, ordinal and topological structures are treated in the following.
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Pahl, P.J., Damrath, R. (2001). Set Theory. In: Mathematical Foundations of Computational Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56893-0_2
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