Curry-Howard correspondence

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A thesis which claims the existence of an analogy or correspondence between — on the one hand — constructive mathematical proofs and programs (especially functions of a typed functional programming language), and — on the other hand — between formulae (proven by the aforementioned proofs) and types (of the aforementioned functions).

Word forms

Curry-Howard correspondence
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