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2024-01-31

The Essence of Scott's "Continuous Lattices"

Keywords:

Lambda calculus, domain theory, category theory, philosophy of mathematical practice, mathematical praxis (en)
Lambda cálculo, teoría de los dominios, teoría de categorías, filosofía de la práctica matemática, praxis matemática (es)

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  • Juan F. Meleiro Universidade de Sao Paulo
  • Hugo Luiz Mariano Universidade de Sao Paulo

Following Fernando Zalamea's call for mathematical criticism [4], we engage in an immersion and reflection on Dana Scott's seminal paper Continuous Lattices [3]. During that process, we turn to making mathematics by extracting the essence of Scott's arguments, thereby engaging in what we might call mathematical praxis. We reveal that Scott's construction of a model of λ-calculus actually happens in a more general setting than it first seems, which includes the use of a particular geometric context [1] to then construct a poset-enriched semicartesian monoidal category in which the inverse system constructions actually take place. We ponder the philosophical implications of this approach.

Siguiendo el llamado de Fernando Zalamea por una crítica matemática [4], nos sumergimos y reflexionamos sobre el artículo seminal de Dana Scott, "Continuous Lattices" [3]. Durante ese proceso, pasamos a hacer matemáticas extrayendo la esencia de los argumentos de Scott, participando así en lo que podríamos llamar praxis matemática. Revelamos que la construcción de Scott de un modelo de lambda-cálculo en realidad ocurre en un entorno más general de lo que parece a primera vista, que incluye el uso de un contexto geométrico particular [1] para luego construir una categoría monoidal semi-cartesiana enriquecida sobre conjuntos ordenados en la que se hace efectiva la construcción con el sistema inverso. Reflexionamos sobre las implicaciones filosóficas de este enfoque.

References

Thiago Alexandre, Elementary schematic geometry, arXiv:2208.13242, 2022.

J. Roger Hindley and Jonathan P. Seldin, Lambda-calculus and combinators, Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Dana Scott, Continuous lattices, Toposes, Algebraic Geometry and Logic (F. W. Lawvere, ed.), Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol. 274, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1972, pp. 97-136.

Fernando Zalamea, Towards mathematical criticism, Annals of Mathematics and Philosophy 1 (2022), no. 1, 161-178.

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Meleiro, J. F. and Mariano, H. L. (2023). The Essence of Scott’s "Continuous Lattices". Boletín de Matemáticas, 30(2), 57–60. https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/bolma/article/view/112746

ACM

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Meleiro, J.F. and Mariano, H.L. 2023. The Essence of Scott’s "Continuous Lattices". Boletín de Matemáticas. 30, 2 (Oct. 2023), 57–60.

ACS

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Meleiro, J. F.; Mariano, H. L. The Essence of Scott’s "Continuous Lattices". Bol. Matemáticas 2023, 30, 57-60.

ABNT

MELEIRO, J. F.; MARIANO, H. L. The Essence of Scott’s "Continuous Lattices". Boletín de Matemáticas, [S. l.], v. 30, n. 2, p. 57–60, 2023. Disponível em: https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/bolma/article/view/112746. Acesso em: 28 apr. 2025.

Chicago

Meleiro, Juan F., and Hugo Luiz Mariano. 2023. “The Essence of Scott’s ‘Continuous Lattices’”. Boletín De Matemáticas 30 (2):57-60. https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/bolma/article/view/112746.

Harvard

Meleiro, J. F. and Mariano, H. L. (2023) “The Essence of Scott’s ‘Continuous Lattices’”, Boletín de Matemáticas, 30(2), pp. 57–60. Available at: https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/bolma/article/view/112746 (Accessed: 28 April 2025).

IEEE

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J. F. Meleiro and H. L. Mariano, “The Essence of Scott’s ‘Continuous Lattices’”, Bol. Matemáticas, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 57–60, Oct. 2023.

MLA

Meleiro, J. F., and H. L. Mariano. “The Essence of Scott’s ‘Continuous Lattices’”. Boletín de Matemáticas, vol. 30, no. 2, Oct. 2023, pp. 57-60, https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/bolma/article/view/112746.

Turabian

Meleiro, Juan F., and Hugo Luiz Mariano. “The Essence of Scott’s ‘Continuous Lattices’”. Boletín de Matemáticas 30, no. 2 (October 11, 2023): 57–60. Accessed April 28, 2025. https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/bolma/article/view/112746.

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Meleiro JF, Mariano HL. The Essence of Scott’s "Continuous Lattices". Bol. Matemáticas [Internet]. 2023 Oct. 11 [cited 2025 Apr. 28];30(2):57-60. Available from: https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/bolma/article/view/112746

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