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All of discrete mathematics — and, in fact, all of mathematics — rests on the foundations of set theory and numbers. We start this chapter by reminding you of some basic definitions and notations and some further properties of numbers and sets.
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Wallis, W.D. (2004). Numbers and Sets. In: A Beginner’s Guide to Finite Mathematics. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3814-8_1
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