Mar 30, 2017

Metric Spaces (1)

Taken by themselves, sets do not have much structure to them. They are essentially barren wastelands with no relationships at all between their elements. In this post we will remedy that by defining a way to add a measure of proximity to the points in a set.

Mar 28, 2017

Set Theory

Everything in mathematics is built from sets. Even objects such as functions and arithmetic operations like addition are formally defined in terms of sets, although you would likely never expect it.