A left inverse in mathematics may refer to:
- A left inverse element with respect to a binary operation on a set
- A left inverse function for a mapping between sets
- A kind of generalized inverse
Famous quotes containing the words left and/or inverse:
“my heart leaps
in wonder.
Cold, fresh, deep, I feel the word ‘water’
spelled in my left palm.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the force of the soul. The spirit sports with time.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)