Transformation (function)

In mathematics, a transformation is a function f,

usually with some geometrical underpinning, that
maps a set X to itself, i.e. f: X → X.[1][2][3]
Examples include linear transformations of vector
spaces and geometric transformations, which
include projective transformations, affine
transformations, and specific affine
transformations, such as rotations, reflections and
translations.[4][5]

Partial transformations
While it is common to use the term
transformation for any function of a set into itself
(especially in terms like "transformation
semigroup" and similar), there exists an alternative
form of terminological convention in which the
term "transformation" is reserved only for A composition of four mappings coded in SVG,
bijections. When such a narrow notion of which transforms a rectangular repetitive pattern
transformation is generalized to partial functions, into a rhombic pattern. The four transformations are
then a partial transformation is a function f: A linear.
→ B, where both A and B are subsets of some set
X.[6]

Algebraic structures
The set of all transformations on a given base set, together with function composition, forms a regular
semigroup.

Combinatorics
For a finite set of cardinality n, there are nn transformations and (n+1)n partial transformations.[7]

See also
Coordinate transformation
Data transformation (statistics)
Geometric transformation
Infinitesimal transformation
Linear transformation
Rigid transformation
Transformation geometry
 Transformation semigroup
Transformation group
Transformation matrix

References
1. Olexandr Ganyushkin; Volodymyr Mazorchuk (2008). Classical Finite Transformation
Semigroups: An Introduction (https://archive.org/details/classicalfinitet00gany_719).
Springer Science & Business Media. p. 1 (https://archive.org/details/classicalfinitet00gany_7
19/page/n73). ISBN 978-1-84800-281-4.
2. Pierre A. Grillet (1995). Semigroups: An Introduction to the Structure Theory (https://books.go
ogle.com/books?id=yM544W1N2UUC&pg=PA2). CRC Press. p. 2. ISBN 978-0-8247-9662-
4.
3. Wilkinson, Leland & Graham (2005). The Grammar of Graphics (https://books.google.com/bo
oks?id=NRyGnjeNKJIC&pg=PA29) (2nd ed.). Springer. p. 29. ISBN 978-0-387-24544-7.
4. "Transformations" (https://www.mathsisfun.com/geometry/transformations.html).
www.mathsisfun.com. Retrieved 2019-12-13.
5. "Types of Transformations in Math" (https://www.basic-mathematics.com/transformations-in-
math.html). Basic-mathematics.com. Retrieved 2019-12-13.
6. Christopher Hollings (2014). Mathematics across the Iron Curtain: A History of the Algebraic
Theory of Semigroups (https://books.google.com/books?id=O9wJBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA251).
American Mathematical Society. p. 251. ISBN 978-1-4704-1493-1.
7. Olexandr Ganyushkin; Volodymyr Mazorchuk (2008). Classical Finite Transformation
Semigroups: An Introduction (https://archive.org/details/classicalfinitet00gany_719).
Springer Science & Business Media. p. 2 (https://archive.org/details/classicalfinitet00gany_7
19/page/n74). ISBN 978-1-84800-281-4.

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