"Yoneda functor" meaning in All languages combined

See Yoneda functor on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: Yoneda functors [plural]
Etymology: Named after the Japanese mathematician Nobuo Yoneda (1930–1996). Head templates: {{en-noun}} Yoneda functor (plural Yoneda functors)
  1. (category theory) A functor from a given category to the category of functors from that given category to Set (the category of sets) which maps any object of the given category to a hom functor represented by that object and any morphism to a natural isomorphism induced uniquely by that morphism according to the Yoneda lemma. Categories (topical): Category theory Related terms: Yoneda embedding, Yoneda lemma

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