On 02/24/2001 04:43:41 PM Richard Cook wrote:
>Whence does this terminology derive? Set or Mapping theory?
I learned it in high school algebra.
>Anyone
>recommend a definitive text?
I have handy the book from a topology course I took that gives definitions:
Munkres, James A. 1975. Topology: A first course. Prentice-Hall.
>I imagine there are more such terms ...
Of terms, there is no end.
>e.g., what is it called if there are elements left over in the domain
>(but not in the codomain)? "Ejective"? I'm feeling "Dejective" for not
>knowing these terms already ...
But at least you recognised something that was likely to have been given a
name: surjective.
- Peter
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