English Explanatory Dictionary

Galois connection

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

Galois connection Galois connections Galois connexion

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.

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