Subobject classifier: Difference between revisions

Content deleted Content added
Line 12:
\end{cases}</math>
 
(Here we interpret 1 as true and 0 as false.) The role of the characteristic function is to determine which elements belong to the subset ''A''. In factsfact, χ<sub>''A''</sub> is true precisely on the elements of ''A''.
 
In this way, the collection of all subsets of ''S'', denoted by '''''P'''''(''S''), and the collection of all maps from ''S'' to Ω = {0,1}, denoted by Ω<sup>''S''</sup>, are [[isomorphic]].