The preimage of #92;#123;4,9#92;#125; under the function f#58;#92;R#92;rightarrow#92;R#58;f(x)#61;x² is the set #92;#123;-3,-2,#43;2,#43;3#92;#125;.
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Preimage
Synonyms for "preimage" (2 found)
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13 translations across 8 languages.
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 原像 noun (set of all elements that map into a given subset of the codomain of a function)
Esperanto
3 entries- kontraŭbildo noun (set of all elements that map into a given subset of the codomain of a function)
- malbildo noun (set of all elements that map into a given subset of the codomain of a function)
- prabildo noun (set of all elements that map into a given subset of the codomain of a function)
Finnish
1 entries- alkukuva noun (set of all elements that map into a given subset of the codomain of a function)
French
2 entries- image réciproque noun (set of all elements that map into a given subset of the codomain of a function)
- préimage noun (set of all elements that map into a given subset of the codomain of a function)
German
1 entries- Urbild noun (set of all elements that map into a given subset of the codomain of a function)
Polish
1 entries- przeciwobraz noun (set of all elements that map into a given subset of the codomain of a function)
Portuguese
1 entries- pré-imagem noun (set of all elements that map into a given subset of the codomain of a function)
Spanish
3 entries- antiimagen noun (set of all elements that map into a given subset of the codomain of a function)
- contraimagen noun (set of all elements that map into a given subset of the codomain of a function)
- imagen inversa noun (set of all elements that map into a given subset of the codomain of a function)
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1967 [Academic Press], Francois Treves, Topological Vector Spaces, Distributions and Kernels, 2006, Dover, page 22, The preimage of a neighborhood U of 0 in E must be a neighborhood of (0,x), since (0,x) is mapped into 0.
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Previously, maps and hypermaps were constructed as the preimages of a segment joining two of the three critical values.
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Loosely speaking, saying that a function f is one-way implies that given y (in the range of f) it is infeasible to find a preimage of y under f.
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