Representation

• Representation (politics), political activities undertaken by elected representatives, as well as other theories • Representative democracy, type of democracy in which elected officials represent a group of people • Representation in contract law, a pre-contractual statement that may (if untrue) result in liability for misrepresentation • Labor representation, or worker representation, the work of a union representative who represents and defends the interests of fellow labor union members • Legal representation, provided by a barrister, lawyer, or other advocate • Lobbying or interest representation, attempts to influence the actions, policies, or decisions of officials • "No taxation without representation", a 1700s slogan that summarized one of the American colonists' 27 colonial grievances in the Thirteen Colonies, which was one of the major causes of the American Revolution • Permanent representation, a type of diplomatic mission ==Arts, entertainment, and media==

• Representation (arts), use of signs that stand in for and take the place of something else • Representation (journal), an academic journal covering representative democracy • Depiction, non-verbal representation through two-dimensional images (pictures) of things seen, remembered or imagined ==Cognitive science and philosophy==

• Representation (psychology) (also "mental representation" or "cognitive representation"), a hypothetical 'internal' cognitive symbol that represents external reality • Knowledge representation, the study of formal ways to describe knowledge • Representation theory (linguistics), a theoretical framework in generative linguistics ==Mathematics==

• Representation (mathematics), a very general relationship that expresses similarities between objects • Group representation, describes abstract groups in terms of linear transformations of vector spaces • Representation of a Lie group, a linear action of a Lie group on a vector space • Lie algebra representation, a way of writing a Lie algebra as a set of matrices in such a way that the Lie bracket is given by the commutator • Multiple representations (mathematics education), ways to symbolize, to describe and to refer to the same mathematical entity ==Other uses==

• Representation (chemistry), graphic representation of the molecular structure of a chemical compound • Social representation, a stock of values, ideas, beliefs, and practices that are shared among the members of groups and communities • Representative sample in statistics == See also ==