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July 4, 2026

Watch: Algorithms Arise from Algebraic Structure

The Stepanov series is now a nine-episode animated playlist: declare the algebraic structure, and the algorithms come for free. From the monoid to lattices, in teacher and student dialogue.

January 18, 2026

Seeing Structure First

A reflection on eleven explorations in generic programming, and how algorithms arise from algebraic structure.

Computer Science Mathematics

November 15, 2019

How Iterators Give You N+M Instead of NxM

Iterators reduce the NxM algorithm-container problem to N+M by interposing an abstraction layer, following Stepanov's generic programming approach.