what do areas of math like Set Theory bring us?
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What do you mean by “like” set theory? Set theory is towards the extreme “pure” end of the pure-applied spectrum and doesn’t really have much in the way of direct practical applications, but it’s widely used as a foundation to help understand other areas of maths – part of the motivation for studying set theory is that sets are so general that you can define most other mathematical concepts *as* sets. Set theory notation is also very convenient and is used all over maths and related subjects, particularly the set membership symbol ∈, the union and intersection symbols ∪ and ∩, and set-builder notation.
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