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2 unusual facts about Haskell Curry


Haskell Curry

In 1927, while an instructor at Princeton University, he discovered the work of Moses Schönfinkel in combinatory logic.

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Curry is best known for his work in combinatory logic; while the initial concept of combinatory logic was based on a single paper by Moses Schönfinkel, much of the development was done by Curry.


Derrick Henry Lehmer

From 1945-1946, Lehmer served on the Computations Committee at Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland, a group established as part of the Ballistics Research Laboratory to prepare the ENIAC for utilization following its completion at the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering; the other Computations Committee members were Haskell Curry, Leland Cunningham, and Franz Alt.


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