Haskell Brooks Curry (
September 12,
1900,
Millis, Massachusetts –
September 1,
1982,
State College, Pennsylvania) was an
American mathematician and
logician.The son of educator Samuel Silas Curry, he was educated at
Harvard University and received a Ph.D. from
Göttingen in
1930, under the supervision of
David Hilbert. While at Göttingen, Curry read the published version of
Moses Schönfinkel's 1920 lecture introducing
combinatory logic, the fateful event in his career. He then wrote his Ph.D. thesis on combinatory logic. By working in the area for his entire career, he essentially became the founder and biggest name in the field. Combinatory logic is the foundation for one style of
functional programming language. The power and scope of combinatory logic is quite similar to that of the
lambda calculus of
Alonzo Church, and the latter formalism has tended to predominate in recent decades.
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