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A function f from X to Y. The set of points in the red oval X is the domain of f. Graph of the real-valued square root function, f(x) = √ x, whose domain consists of all nonnegative real numbers. In mathematics, the domain of a function is the set of inputs accepted by the function.
with domain, the range of , sometimes denoted or (), [4] may refer to the codomain or target set (i.e., the set into which all of the output of is constrained to fall), or to (), the image of the domain of under (i.e., the subset of consisting of all actual outputs of ). The image of a function is always a subset of the codomain of the ...
The points P 1, P 2, and P 3 (in blue) are collinear and belong to the graph of x 3 + 3 / 2 x 2 − 5 / 2 x + 5 / 4 . The points T 1, T 2, and T 3 (in red) are the intersections of the (dotted) tangent lines to the graph at these points with the graph itself. They are collinear too.
Given a function: from a set X (the domain) to a set Y (the codomain), the graph of the function is the set [4] = {(, ()):}, which is a subset of the Cartesian product.In the definition of a function in terms of set theory, it is common to identify a function with its graph, although, formally, a function is formed by the triple consisting of its domain, its codomain and its graph.
In mathematics, the support of a real-valued function is the subset of the function domain of elements that are not mapped to zero. If the domain of is a topological space, then the support of is instead defined as the smallest closed set containing all points not mapped to zero.
Interpretation for surjective functions in the Cartesian plane, defined by the mapping f : X → Y, where y = f(x), X = domain of function, Y = range of function. Every element in the range is mapped onto from an element in the domain, by the rule f. There may be a number of domain elements which map to the same range element.
Let F be a field and let X be any set. The functions X → F can be given the structure of a vector space over F where the operations are defined pointwise, that is, for any f, g : X → F, any x in X, and any c in F, define (+) = + () = When the domain X has additional structure, one might consider instead the subset (or subspace) of all such functions which respect that structure.
On the other hand, the function / cannot be continuously extended, because the function approaches as approaches 0 from below, and + as approaches 0 from above, i.e., the function not converging to the same value as its independent variable approaching to the same domain element from both the positive and negative value sides.