Introduction of Set Theory

In (1845 – 1918 AD) German mathematician George Cantor, develop “Set Theory”.

When he was working on ” Problems on Trigonometric Series”, he encountered Set.

Set Theory is a branch of mathematics, A set is informally collection of objects. Although any type of objects can be collect in a set.

Simply we can say it’s a collection of unordered things or numbers etc known as elements or members of a set.

Synonyms of word set are “Collection”,  “Aggegate”, or “Class “. Basically set is a collection of similar objects.

We see the following collection,

1. The vowels in the English alphabet a, e, i ,o, u.

2. The natural numbers.

3. Even numbers 10 to 20.

4. States of India.

5. The solar system.

These are all the examples of sets.