Yoneda lemma
English
Etymology
Lemma named after the Japanese mathematician Nobuo Yoneda.
Noun
Yoneda lemma
- (category theory) Given a category C with an object A, let HA be a representable functor from C to the category of Sets, and let F be any functor from C to Sets, then there is a "natural" isomorphism between the set F(A) and Nat(HA,F), the set of natural transformations from HA to F.
References
- The Catsters – Representables and Yoneda 3