Identity vs Semisimple - What's the difference?
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Sameness, identicalness; the quality or fact of (several specified things) being the same.
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The difference or character that marks off an individual from the rest of the same kind, selfhood.
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A name or persona—the mask or appearance one presents to the world—by which one is known.
Sense of who one is.
(algebra, computing) Any function which maps all elements of its domain to themselves.
(algebra) An element of an algebraic structure which, when applied to another element under an operation in that structure, yields this, second element.
(mathematics, of a module) In which each submodule is a direct summand.
(mathematics, of an algebra or ring)
(mathematics, of an operator or matrix) For which every invariant subspace has an invariant complement, equivalent to the minimal polynomial being squarefree.
(mathematics, of a Lie algebra) Being a direct sum of simple Lie algebras.
(mathematics, of an algebraic group) Being a linear algebraic group whose radical of the identity component is trivial.
As a noun identity
is sameness, identicalness; the quality or fact of (several specified things) being the same.As an adjective semisimple is
(mathematics|of a module) in which each submodule is a direct summand.identity
English
(wikipedia identity)Noun
(identities)- This criminal has taken on several identities .
- I've been through so many changes, I have no sense of identity .
- This nation has a strong identity .