Equivalent structures on sets: Equivalence classes, partitions and fiber structures of functions

Educational Studies in Mathematics

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 127-147

  Hamdan, May ^a  

^a LEBANESE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

APOS theory; Equivalence classes; Equivalence relations; Functions; Genetic decomposition; Partitions; Set structures

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746754074     PISSN: 00131954     EISSN: 15730816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10649-006-5798-9     Document Type: Article

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