Venn diagrams were first introduced by John Venn to show the connection between different groups of things. Since set is a group of things, we use this diagram to explain the relationship between the sets.
We use Venn diagram to have better understanding of different operations on sets. When two or more sets are combined together to form another set under some given conditions, then operations on sets are carried out.
Let us discuss the important operations here :
The important operations on sets are.
1. Union
2. Intersection
3. Set difference
4. Symmetric difference
5. Complement
6. Disjoint sets
Let us discuss the above operations in detail one by one.
Let X and Y be two sets.
Now, we can define the following new set.
XuY = {z | z ∈ X or z ∈ Y}
(That is, z may be in X or in Y or in both X and Y)
XuY is read as 'X union Y'
Now that XuY contains all the elements of X and all the elements of Y and the Venn diagram given below illustrates this.
It is clear that X ⊆ X u Y and also Y ⊆ XuY.
Let X and Y be two sets.
Now, we can define the following new set.
XnY = {z | z ∈ X and z ∈ Y}
(That is z must be in both X and Y)
XnY is read as 'X intersection Y'
Now that X n Y contains only those elements which belong to both X and Y and the Venn diagram given below illustrates this.
It is trivial that that X n Y ⊆ X and also XnY ⊆ Y.
Let X and Y be two sets.
Now, we can define the following new set.
X\Y = {z | z ∈ X but z ∉ Y}
(That is z must be in X and must not be in Y)
X\Y is read as 'X difference Y'
Now that X\Y contains only elements of X which are not in Y and the Venn diagram given below illustrates this.
Some authors use A - B for A\B. We shall use the notation A\B which is widely used in mathematics for set difference.
Let X and Y be two sets.
Now, we can define the following new set.
XΔY = (X\Y) u (Y\X)
XΔY is read as 'X symmetric difference Y'
Now that XΔY contains all elements in XuY which are not in XnY and the Venn-diagram given below illustrates this.
If X ⊆ U, where U is a universal set, then U\X is called the compliment of X with respect to U. If underlying universal set is fixed, then we denote U\X by X' and it is called compliment of X.
X' = U\X
The difference set set A\B can also be viewed as the compliment of B with respect to A.
Two sets X and Y are said to be disjoint if they do not have any common element. That is, X and Y are disjoint if
XnY = ᵩ
It is clear that n(AuB) = n(A) + n(B), if A and B are disjoint finite set.
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