\documentclass[ps, letterpaper]{cs121} \usepackage{enumerate} \begin{document} \header{0}{Tuesday, September 10, 2013}{Friday, September 13, 2013}{20} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \noindent{\bf Note: This is our standard prologue. Problem set 0 counts 0 points, but you should complete it, and we will grade it and provide a solution set for your edification.} \PART{Gabe} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \problem{2+2+2+2} Using set notation, give formal descriptions of the following sets: \subproblem The set containing no elements. \subproblem The set containing the empty string. \subproblem The power set of a set $X$, denoted $\mathcal{P}(X)$, i.e., the set containing all subsets of $X$. \subproblem The difference between two sets $X$ and $Y$, denoted $X\setminus Y$, i.e., the set containing all elements of $X$ that are not elements of $Y$. %%% Uncomment the lines below to add your solutions. Use the same format %%% in all subsequent problems. %%% \subsolution % your answer here %%% \subsolution % your answer here %%% \subsolution % your answer here %%% \subsolution % your answer here %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \problem{10+10} Given a set $X$, we define the power set $\mathcal{P}(X)$ to be the set of all subsets of $X$. \subproblem Construct a bijection between $\mathcal{P}(X)$ and the set of functions from $X$ into the set $\{0,1\}$. \subproblem Prove that for any finite set $X$, $|P(X)| = 2^{|X|}$. (Hint: use induction on $|X|$.) \end{document}