Etymology

bijection

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Today it means: A one-to-one correspondence, a function which is both a surjection and an injection. Full definition →

French bijection
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  1. French · borrowed frombijection
  2. English todaybijection

PIE word *dwóh₁ From French bijection, introduced by Nicolas Bourbaki in their treatise Éléments de mathématique.

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