isomorphism
noun
iso·mor·phism
ˌī-sə-ˈmȯr-ˌfi-zəm 
1
: the quality or state of being isomorphic: such as
a
: similarity in organisms of different ancestry resulting from convergence
b
: similarity of crystalline form between chemical compounds
2
: a one-to-one correspondence between two mathematical sets
especially
: a homomorphism that is one-to-one compare endomorphism
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But despite this disparity in progress, the two problems have a deeper connection than the similarity of their names: The group isomorphism problem (at least in this formulation) reduces to the graph isomorphism problem.
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Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 23 June 2023
That’s flipped today, in part because graph isomorphism has spurred exciting innovations while group isomorphism has stalled.
—Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 23 June 2023
Imagining reversed historical situations is a worthwhile exercise to visualize isomorphism, the tendency of all human organizations to resemble their normative environment.
—Enrique Dans, Forbes, 20 May 2021
This notion of isomorphism lies at the heart of this decades-old problem.
—Quanta Magazine, 10 Aug. 2021
This term refers to the notion of isomorphism in the more exotic homotopy category of spaces.
—Emily Riehl, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2021
The Friedman-Stanley paper, as well as the new work by Paolini and Shelah, focused on an equivalence relation — called isomorphism — between structures.
—Quanta Magazine, 10 Aug. 2021
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Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 23 June 2023
That’s flipped today, in part because graph isomorphism has spurred exciting innovations while group isomorphism has stalled.
—Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 23 June 2023
Imagining reversed historical situations is a worthwhile exercise to visualize isomorphism, the tendency of all human organizations to resemble their normative environment.
—Enrique Dans, Forbes, 20 May 2021
This notion of isomorphism lies at the heart of this decades-old problem.
—Quanta Magazine, 10 Aug. 2021
This term refers to the notion of isomorphism in the more exotic homotopy category of spaces.
—Emily Riehl, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2021
The Friedman-Stanley paper, as well as the new work by Paolini and Shelah, focused on an equivalence relation — called isomorphism — between structures.
—Quanta Magazine, 10 Aug. 2021
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isomorphism
noun
iso·mor·phism
ˌi-sə-ˈmȯr-ˌfiz-əm
1
: similarity in organisms of different ancestry resulting from evolutionary convergence
2
: similarity of crystalline form between chemical compounds
3
: a correspondence that is held to exist between a mental process (as perception) and physiological processes
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