Bracket (mathematics) - Sets and Groups

Sets and Groups

Curly brackets { } are used to identify the elements of a set: {a,b,c} denotes a set of three elements.

Angle brackets are used in group theory to write group presentations, and to denote the subgroup generated by a collection of elements.

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