Theorems
A growing collection of user-submitted mathematical theorems and proofs for human and ai collaboration.
Cartesian Product of Two Sets, via Ordered Pairs
definitiondef:cartesian-product-sets-2026bCombinatoricsSet TheoryLet and be sets, and let denote the ordered pair of and . The Cartesian product of and is the setFiniteness of Cartesian Products, Tuple Sets, and Permutation Sets
lemmalem:finite-product-tuple-sets-2026aCombinatoricsSet TheoryLet be the set of natural numbers with successor map as in that definition, and for let be the initial segment determined by . The notions has elements and finite are those of the indicated definitions. Let and be finite set…Peeling an Element off a Finite Set, and Unions of Finite Sets
lemmalem:finite-set-union-2026aCombinatoricsSet TheoryLet be the set of natural numbers with successor map as in that definition, ordered by the relations of Order on the Natural Numbers, and for let be the initial segment determined by . The notions has elements and finite are those of…- A set is called finite if or if has elements for some natural number .
- Let be the set of natural numbers with successor map , let be the order on , let denote the initial segment determined by , and let the notions number of elements and finite be as in those definitions. Then the following hold. 1.…
Counting a Partition into Blocks of Equal Cardinality
lemmalem:finite-partition-count-2026aCombinatoricsSet TheoryLet be a set, let be natural numbers, and let be the initial segment determined by . Suppose that for each a subset is given such that: 1. every lies in for some ; 2. wh…- Let be a set and let , where is the set of natural numbers and denotes the initial segment determined by . We say that has elements if there exists a bijection By Uniqueness of the Number of Elements there is at…
Order and Factorial of a Multi-Index
definitiondef:order-factorial-multi-index-2026aCombinatoricsMultivariable CalculusLet , and let be a multi-index of length in the sense of Multi-Index of Length . The order of is the nonnegative integer The factorial of is the natural number…- Let . A multi-index of length is an element That is, a multi-index of length is an ordered -tuple of nonnegative integers. The zero multi-index of length is For e…
- Let , and let . The finite product is defined recursively as follows. For every natural number , one sets
- Let and be sets. A bijection from to is a function with the following property: for every element there exists exactly one element such that
- Let , and let , where is the set from the permutation definition. An inversion of is a pair such that and . Let denote the number of inversions of . The sign of …
- Let . A permutation of the set is a bijection The set of all permutations of is denoted by .
- Let . We say that is even if there exists a natural number such that We say that is odd if there exists a natural number such that
- Let . The factorial of is the natural number where the product is the finite product from the finite-product definition.
- Let and be sets. Their Cartesian product is the set
- We write The elements of are called natural numbers. We regard addition and multiplication on as binary operations…