
We speak of a composite of two functions when:
- two functions map the value for each other
or
- the range of one function represents the domain of another function.
Let's look at the composite in the sketch:
From the figure we can see that the function
maps
(from the set
) to
(to the set
) and then
immediately maps to the function
to
(in the set
).
Note that the range of the function
is the domain of the function
.
Mathematically, we write the mapping of the function
:


and functions 


The composite of the functions
and
is the function
, which adapts the images
in the set
to the element
from the set
:


We can also notice that we use two names for the composite:
can also be written as
.