English Explanatory Dictionary

Yoneda embedding

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An embedding of a category 𝒞 within the category of functors from 𝒞 to the category of sets. Such an embedding is effected by a Yoneda functor.

Word forms

Yoneda embedding Yoneda embeddings

Etymology

Named after the Japanese mathematician Nobuo Yoneda (1930–1996).

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