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Galois connection

noun

Etymology

From Galois (attributive form of Galois theory) + connection; ultimately after French mathematician Évariste Galois. Coined by Norwegian mathematician Øystein Ore in 1944, Galois connexions, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, 55, pages 493-513.

  1. derived from mathematician Øystein Ore in 1944
  2. derived from mathematician Évariste Galois

Definitions

  1. A type of correspondence between partially ordered sets (posets), also applicable to…

    A type of correspondence between partially ordered sets (posets), also applicable to preordered sets.

The neighborhood

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