Wikipedia 10K Redux

Reconstructed by Reagle from Starling archive; see blog post for context.

Set

A set is a collection of objects. For example, one can define the set S = {Sn: Sn is a sibling of the Larry M. Sanger, who is the Editor-in-Chief of Nupedia}.

We require that sets be well-defined. Given an object Sn, we must be able to determine if Sn belongs to S.----

What, there are no recursively enumerable sets?


Mathematicians are prone to present sets of numbers as examples:

  • Natural Numbers which are used for counting the members of sets.
  • Integers which appear as solutions to equations like x+a=b.
  • Rational Numbers which appear as solutions to equations like a+bx=c.
  • Algebraic Numbers which can appear as solutions to polynomial equations (with rational coefficients) and may involve radicals.
  • Real Numbers which include Transcendental Numbers (which can't appear as solutions to polynomial equations with rational coefficents) as well as the Algebraic Numbers
  • Statistical Theory is built on the base of Set Theory and Probabillity Theory.