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Identity most often refers to:Identity document, a document proving a person's identity Identity (philosophy), the relation each thing bears only to itself Identity, which characterizes a person or a group Identity (mathematics), an equation that is always true for any value of its variables Wikipedia →

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

  1. Read the overview: IdentityA 5-minute orientation
  2. Skim a recent paper: Dissecting cell identity via network inference and in silico gene perturbationInfluential work since 2022
  3. Pick up a classic book: The WavesThe most-reprinted book on the subject
  4. Read the landmark paper: Social Identity Theory and the OrganizationCited 32,005 times
  5. Go sideways: Identity (philosophy)A closely related topic
  6. Go sideways: IDA closely related topic

📖 Definitions

Noun Sameness, identicalness; the quality or fact of (several specified things) being the same.

Noun The difference or character that marks off an individual or collective from the rest of the same kind; selfhood; the sense of who something or someone or oneself is, or the recurring characteristics that enable the recognition of such an individual or group by others or themselves.

Noun A name or persona—a mask or appearance one presents to the world—by which one is known.

Noun An equation which always holds true regardless of the choice of input variables.

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