The approach was first presented by Jon Bentley, Dorothea Haken, and James B. Saxe in 1980, where it was described as a "unifying method" for solving such recurrences.
这种方法最初由Jon Bentlery，Dorothea Haken和James B. Saxe在1980年提出，在那里被描述为解决这种递回的“天下無敵法”(master method)。