Monoids
In mathematics, Monoids can be considered as categories with a single object. They capture the idea of function composition within a set. In fact, all functions from a set into itself naturally form a Monoid with respect to function composition.
In computer science, there are different types of Monoid, such as free, transition, syntactic, trace, and history. A set of strings built from a given set of characters is a free Monoid. The transition Monoid and syntactic Monoid are used to describe finite state machines, whereas trace Monoids and history Monoids provide a foundation for process calculi and concurrent computing.
Simply put, in computer science, a Monoid is a set, a binary operation, and an element of the set with the following ...
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