# Math Help - Vocabulary Thread

I understand what this means $\pi_j:A\times B\longmapsto B$ but they call it a projection map. Is there something else that goes along with $\pi_j:A\times B\longmapsto B$ than meets the eyes?

2. I'm not sure I understand what you're asking for... Are you wondering if there is an application of this ?

I can show you one (the first that came in my mind), but it has to do with measure theory (product sigma-algebra). So if you're interested, I can show it...
And Opalg once used them to explain stuff in product topology.

There another way of seeing these functions, it's calling them the coordinates mappings :
$\pi_1 ~:~ A \times B \to A$ (note that it's $\to$ and not $\mapsto$, I don't know how you learnt it, but my teachers always used the second one for defining the function)

$(x_1,x_2) \mapsto x_1$

$\pi_2 ~:~ A \times B \to B$
$(x_1,x_2) \mapsto x_2$

3. Originally Posted by Moo
I'm not sure I understand what you're asking for... Are you wondering if there is an application of this ?

I can show you one (the first that came in my mind), but it has to do with measure theory (product sigma-algebra). So if you're interested, I can show it...
And Opalg once used them to explain stuff in product topology.

There another way of seeing these functions, it's calling them the coordinates mappings :
$\pi_1 ~:~ A \times B \to A$ (note that it's $\to$ and not $\mapsto$, I don't know how you learnt it, but my teachers always used the second one for defining the function)

$(x_1,x_2) \mapsto x_1$

$\pi_2 ~:~ A \times B \to B$
$(x_1,x_2) \mapsto x_2$
Thank you very much Moo, I found what they meant and it is as I suspected and you of course identified...it was meant to be a coordinate mapping...btw they do use $\pi_1:A\times B{\color{red}\longmapsto}B$