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Haskell Curry

1900 - 1982

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Haskell Brooks Curry ( HAS-kəl; September 12, 1900 – September 1, 1982) 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 Schönfinkel, for which Curry did much of the development. Curry is also known for Curry's paradox and the Curry–Howard correspondence. Named for him are three programming languages: Haskell, Brook, and Curry, and the concept of currying, a method to transform functions, used in mathematics and computer science. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Haskell Curry is the 653rd most popular mathematician (down from 596th in 2019), the 5,862nd most popular biography from United States (down from 5,021st in 2019) and the 45th most popular American Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Haskell Curry ranks 653 out of 1,004. Before him are Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter, Tommaso Ceva, 'Abd al-Hamīd ibn Turk, Alessandro Galilei, Jean-Christophe Yoccoz, and Dai Zhen. After him are William Burnside, Johan Jensen, Aleksey Krylov, Olga Taussky-Todd, Michael Artin, and Ludwig Schläfli.

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Among people born in 1900, Haskell Curry ranks 195. Before him are Halina Konopacka, Dumarsais Estimé, Jiří Wolker, Gilberto Freyre, Bruno Apitz, and George Calnan. After him are Ioannis Andreou, Helen Morgan, René Guillot, Roy Harrod, Ioannis Theodoropoulos, and Clyde Tolson. Among people deceased in 1982, Haskell Curry ranks 165. Before him are Ed Hamm, Ludwig Bieberbach, Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, Gábor Szabó, Harold Sakata, and Douglas Bader. After him are Antonio Guzmán Fernández, Rachel Cohen-Kagan, Alfons Dorfner, Carmelo Robledo, Irmgard Keun, and Roberto Aballay.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Haskell Curry ranks 5,862 out of 20,380. Before him are John Garfield (1913), Dizzy Reed (1963), Matt Schulze (1972), Ambrose Burnside (1824), Bill Tuttle (1882), and Titus Welliver (1962). After him are Sam J. Jones (1954), Richard N. Frye (1920), Walter Sutton (1877), Ralph Hartley (1888), Ernest Fenollosa (1853), and Gus Hall (1910).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United States

Among mathematicians born in United States, Haskell Curry ranks 45. Before him are Isadore Singer (1924), Louis J. Mordell (1888), Benjamin Peirce (1809), Saunders Mac Lane (1909), Michael Freedman (1951), and Leonard Eugene Dickson (1874). After him are Oswald Veblen (1880), Richard Montague (1930), Harold Hotelling (1895), Ken Ribet (1948), Joseph Keller (1923), and Daniel Quillen (1940).

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