MORPHISM

Morphism

In many fields of mathematics, morphism refers to a structure-preserving mapping from one mathematical structure to another. The notion of morphism recurs in much of contemporary mathematics. In set theory, morphisms are functions; in linear algebra, linear transformations; in group theory, group homomorphisms; in topology, continuous functions, and so on.

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morphism

Noun

  1. an arrow in a category.
  2. a map which preserves structure, in a way that depends on the branch of mathematics where it arises.


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