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Relations and Functions

Madhya Pradesh Board · Class 12 · Mathematics

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1. Relations and Their Types

  • A relation in a set A is a subset of A × A.
  • The two extreme relations are the empty relation ϕ and the universal relation A × A.
  • Empty relation means no element of A is related to any element of A.
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2. Functions: One-One, Onto, and Bijective

  • A function is a special relation with a well-defined image for each element of the domain.
  • One-one means distinct elements of the domain have distinct images.
  • Many-one means at least two different domain elements have the same image.
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3. Composition of Functions and Inverse

  • Composition means applying one function after another.
  • The notation gof means g(f(x)).
  • Composition is generally not commutative: gof may differ from fog.
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4. Historical Development of Function

  • Descartes first used the word function in 1637 in Geometrie to mean a positive integral power x^n of a variable x.
  • James Gregory considered a function as a quantity obtained from other quantities by algebraic or other operations.
  • Leibnitz used the word function for quantities varying along a curve and was the first to use the phrase function of x.

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A relation in a setThe empty relation contains no orderedA relation is reflexive if everyA relation is an equivalence relationAn equivalence relation divides a set

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