How do isomorphic, homomorphic and bijective differ, please?
Bijective means that a mapping is exactly one to one.
Homomorphic means that "structure is kept". E.g. in a vector space you can add and multiply by a scalar, so a mapping f is homomorphic if for all x, y in the vector space and lambda a scalar
f(lambda*x + y) = lambda*f(x) + f(y)The classic example is a function which maps an interval to a circle by applying cos and sin to get the coordinates; this is continuous as small changes in the interval result in a small change in the position on the circumference, but its inverse is not continuous because there will be a point on the circle where the nearby points on one side come from the start of the interval but the nearby points on the other side come from the end of the interval.