[Edu-sig] "The study of fixed points has been at the foundation of algorithms"

[Grégoire Dooms]

Arthur wrote:

>Guess I am fishing for some exposition on the statement that the
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>"The study of fixed points has been at the foundation of algorithms"
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Very deep in the foundations of algorithms are the foundations of 
computer science semantics:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denotational_semantics

An other area where I've been exposed ot fixed points is concurrent 
constraint programming where constraint propagators are applied to a 
computation space until a fixed point is reached (see for instance 
http://www.gecode.org/ for a Open source implementation).

HTH,
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Grégoire Dooms

PS: Where is the connection with education with/about Python ?