Comment by frutiger
6 days ago
> solutions to isomorphic problems
“Isomorphic” is a word that describes a mapping (or a transformation) that preserves some properties that we believe to be important.
The word you’re looking for is probably “similar” not “isomorphic”. It sure as hell doesn’t sound as fancy though.
... yes, that is why I chose the word? Literally: preservation of structural similarity. Not simply "similarity", which could mean anything.
What’s the morphism here?
It used to be the library one wrote to solve them at once - the solution being isomorphic that is, not the problems. I.e. given problems a b c d, f(a) solves a, g(b) solves b, … j(d) solves d - turns out if you can write a common function F instead of f g h j separately, then clearly F is isomorphic to f g h j under our constraints.
I guess in this case the morphism is the similar or same prompt to generate f g h j.