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I'm curious to know the earliest paper that identifies Tarski's theorem
regarding the existence of least/greatest fixpoints of monotonic
functions on a complete lattice ("A Lattice Theoretical Fixpoint
Theorem and its Applications", Pacific J. of Math. 5, 285-309, 1955) as
the basis for termination of the standard dataflow analysis algorithms.
An interesting thread about the use of the Knaster-Tarski theorems for programming language semantics.
Posted to theory by Ehud Lamm on 3/18/03; 11:02:26 AM
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Tarski's fixpoint theorem - history of use
