Well, I'm not sure what that's about, besides possibly being mathematical. The title alone isn't enough to get me to download a pdf. (And I've downloaded 100s of mathematical PDFs)
that is some strange criteria and a weird guess when you could just open up the pdf and read the abstract. it is about continuations, a computer science concept of flow control or control state.
I've read the first few pages. Looks like an interesting paper and I'll read it further. Only flaw is that it doesn't cover Steve Russell being the first to discover/invent continuations. Steve Russell was the first implementor of LISP, and gave it its final syntax after McCarthy did his design work on it.
page 6 of the PDF, a continuation is essentially the return address of a subroutine call. But then there are scoping rules that interact with that simplicity.
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