1. The most difficult part of the reading for today was section 1.4 about Indexed Collections of Sets. I must have forgotten how to do series problems. I was able to figure out and follow the text only when I wrote out the example problems on my own sheet of paper and wrote out each step. There are also so many different symbols, that I struggled to remember which symbol was which and what the problem was asking. Once I accurately differentiated between ∪ and ∩, I came out with the right answer. I am going to have to make some flash cards with all the symbols on them so that I can know what the text is saying when I read it without a key. It's hard to follow the math and words when there are so many symbols! Hopefully this gets easier with time.
2. What I liked most about todays reading was that everything I read about could be visualized. I'm not much for learning through visuals usually, but I was able to understand the concept of sets so much better with the Venn Diagrams. I thoroughly enjoyed seeing how many different ways something can be written and how many smaller subsets can describe one great whole. This might be a little far out, but in terms of religion, it reminded me a lot of how God is like the Universal set, and we are all individual subsets under him. We, as his subsets, have our identity made up of parts of his Universal set, yet we are all individual and unique.
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