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Most students will already know some of the material in this chapter, but even they should review some basics (sets, the standard number systems, and so on) so that we all use the same notation. We shall also introduce Venn diagrams, which will be a useful tool in more than one place.
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Wallis, W.D. (2013). Numbers and Sets. In: Mathematics in the Real World. Birkhäuser, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8529-2_1
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