2011 June 27, Tom Leinster, “An informal introduction to topos theory”, in arXiv.org, Cornell University Library, retrieved 2018-03-18:
Let X be a topological space. (Following tradition, I will switch from my previous convention of using X to denote an object of a topos.) Write Open(X) for its poset of open subsets. A presheaf on X is a functor . It assigns to each open subset U a set F(U), whose elements are called sections overU (for reasons to be explained). It also assigns to each open a function , called restriction from U to V and denoted by . I will write Psh(X) for the category of presheaves on X.
Examples 3.1 i. Let F(U) = {continuous functions }; restriction is restriction.
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If the base space is denoted as X and the presheaf's codomain is denoted A, then the presheaf is said to be "on X, with values in A".