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单词 Operation
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operation


According to the dictionary Webster’s 1913, which can be accessed through\\htmladdnormallinkHyperDictionary.comhttp://www.hyperdictionary.com/, mathematicalmeaning of the word operationMathworldPlanetmath is: “some transformationPlanetmathPlanetmath to bemade upon quantities”. Thus, operation is similarPlanetmathPlanetmath to mapping or function. The mostgeneral mathematical definition of operation can be made as follows:

Definition 1

Operation # defined on the sets X1,X2,,Xn with values in Xis a mapping from Cartesian product X1×X2××Xn to X, i.e.

#:X1×X2××XnX.

Result of operation is usually denoted by one of the following notation:

  • x1#x2##xn

  • #(x1,,xn)

  • (x1,,xn)#

The following examples show varietyMathworldPlanetmath of the concept operation used in mathematics.

Examples

  1. 1.

    Arithmetic operations: additionPlanetmathPlanetmath (http://planetmath.org/Addition), subtractionPlanetmathPlanetmath, multiplication (http://planetmath.org/Multiplication), division.Their generalizationPlanetmathPlanetmath leads to the so-called binary operationsMathworldPlanetmath, which is a basic conceptfor such algebraic structuresPlanetmathPlanetmath as groups and rings.

  2. 2.

    Operations on vectors in the plane (2).

    • Multiplication by a scalar. Generalization leads to vector spacesMathworldPlanetmath.

    • Scalar productMathworldPlanetmath. Generalization leads to Hilbert spaces.

  3. 3.

    Operations on vectors in the space (3).

    • Cross productMathworldPlanetmath. Can be generalized for the vector space of arbitraryfinite dimensionPlanetmathPlanetmath, see vector product in general vector spaces.

    • Triple product.

  4. 4.

    Some operations on functions.

    • Composition.

    • Function inversePlanetmathPlanetmathPlanetmathPlanetmathPlanetmathPlanetmath.

In the case when some of the sets Xi are equal to the values set X, it is usually saidthat operation is defined just on X. For such operations, it could be interestingto consider their action on some subset UX. In particular,if operation on elements from U always gives an element from U, it is said that Uis closed under this operation. Formally it is expressed in the following definition.

Definition 2

Let operation #:X1×X2××XnX is definedon X, i.e. there exists k1 and indexes 1j1<j2<<jknsuch that Xj1=Xj2==Xjk=X. For simplicity, let us assume that ji=i.A subset UX is said to be closed under operation # iffor all u1,u2,,uk from U and for all xjXjj>k holds:

#(u1,u2,,uk,xk+1,xk+2,,xn)U.

The next examples illustrates this definition.

Examples

  1. 1.

    Vector space V over a field K is a set, on which the following two operationsare defined:

    • multiplication by a scalar:

      :K×VV
    • addition

      +:V×VV.

    Of course these operations need to satisfy some properties (for details see the entry vector space).A subset WV, which is closed under these operations, is called vector subspace.

  2. 2.

    Consider collectionMathworldPlanetmath of all subsets of the real numbers , which we denote by 2.On this collection, binary operation intersection of sets is defined:

    :2×22.

    Collection of sets 2:

    :={[a,b):ab}

    is closed under this operation.

Titleoperation
Canonical nameOperation
Date of creation2013-03-22 14:57:23
Last modified on2013-03-22 14:57:23
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Entry typeDefinition
Classificationmsc 03E20
Related topicFunction
Related topicMapping
Related topicTransformation
Related topicBinaryOperation
Definesclosed under
Definesarithmetic operation
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