13 Facts About Haskell Curry

Haskell Brooks Curry was an American mathematician, logician and computer scientist.

Curry is best known for his work in combinatory logic, whose initial concept is based on a paper by Moses Schonfinkel, for which Curry did much of the development.

Haskell Curry entered Harvard University in 1916 to study medicine but switched to mathematics before graduating in 1920.

Haskell Curry was supervised by David Hilbert and worked closely with Bernays, receiving a Ph.

In 1928, before leaving for Gottingen, Haskell Curry married Mary Virginia Wheatley.

The couple lived in Germany while Haskell Curry completed his dissertation, then, in 1929, moved to State College, Pennsylvania where Haskell Curry accepted a position at Pennsylvania State College.

Haskell Curry remained at Penn State for the next 37 years.

In 1970, after finishing the second volume of his treatise on the combinatory logic, Haskell Curry retired from the University of Amsterdam and returned to State College, Pennsylvania.

Haskell Curry died on September 1,1982, in State College, Pennsylvania.

The focus of Haskell Curry's work were attempts to show that combinatory logic could provide a foundation for mathematics.

In 1947 Haskell Curry described one of the first high-level programming languages and provided the first description of a procedure to convert a general arithmetic expression into a code for one-address computer.

Haskell Curry taught at Harvard, Princeton, and from 1929 to 1966, at the Pennsylvania State University.

Haskell Curry wrote and taught mathematical logic more generally; his teaching in this area culminated in his 1963 Foundations of Mathematical Logic.