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Gave a method for finding a shortest path in a graph with positive edge lengths; the original note also treats construction of a minimum-total-length tree.
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This record is anchored to the 1959 publication and the author’s retrospective. It does not extend the method unconditionally to negative edge weights or adjudicate priority across all minimum-spanning-tree work.
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- Dijkstra, A note on two problems in connexion with graphs, Numerische Mathematik 1, 269–271 (1959)
- Dijkstra, Citation Classic retrospective on the 1959 graph paper, EWD841a, University of Texas author archive
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People and systems
Edsger W. Dijkstra
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Dijkstra: the shortest-path algorithm
Gave a method for finding a shortest path in a graph with positive edge lengths; the original note also treats construction of a minimum-total-length tree.
Scientific scope
This record is anchored to the 1959 publication and the author’s retrospective. It does not extend the method unconditionally to negative edge weights or adjudicate priority across all minimum-spanning-tree work.
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This is a source-linked WRS catalogue note. A full explanatory guide and independent scientific reconstruction have not been completed for this entry. Read the identified original work for its complete narrative and arguments.
People and systems
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Listed source contributors; individual labor shares are not measured