Here's the canonical node on the ST.

There are many good expositions of the ST. One that I think you'll enjoy is the famous paper by Guttman and Rosler on sorting in Perl, which describes other sorting techniques as well. japhy's Resorting to Sorting is also very good.

Update: s/Schwarzian/Schwartzian/

Update 2: Dang! s/zt/tz/

Update 3: Fixed link to GRT paper, which was broken. Thanks to planetscape for the heads-up and the alternative link!

the lowliest monk

In reply to Re: What is "Schwartzian Transform" by tlm
in thread What is "Schwarzian Transform" (aka Schwartzian) by GrandFather

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