Associations to the word «Surjection»

Wiktionary

SURJECTION, noun. (set theory) A function of "many-to-one" mapping relationship; more formally, f:   X   →   Y is a surjection if and only if, for every y in the codomain Y, there is at least one x in the domain X with f(x)   =   y.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky