pointwise
Speech parts
1. pointwise - Adjective
2. pointwise - Adverb
Meaning
pointwise (not comparable)
(mathematics) Occurring or true for each point of a given set.
pointwise (not comparable)
In a pointwise manner
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Examples
But this would lose important logical properties of the reals; for example, pointwise < is not a total ordering.
In symbols, U is pointwise finite if and only if, for any x in X, the set : : is finite.
Equipped with the topology of pointwise convergence on A (i.
Function spaces Functions from any fixed set Ω to a field F also form vector spaces, by performing addition and scalar multiplication pointwise.
If we use complex-valued functions, the space L ∞ is a commutative C*-algebra with pointwise multiplication and conjugation.
Indeed, it coincides with the topology of pointwise convergence of linear functionals.