Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

curry-howard correspondence

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.55 in modern English

Syllables: cur-ry-howard -cor-re-spon-dence
IPA

44

Scrabble Score

25

Letters

7

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

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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).

Example Sentences

"Gerhard Gentzen's calculus of natural deduction is the first formalism of structural proof theory, and is the cornerstone of the Curry-Howard correspondence relating logic to functional programming.ᵂᴾ"

Synonyms

Curry-Howard isomorphism

Questions

What does curry-howard correspondence mean?: 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).

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