Working Notes: a commonplace notebook for recording & exploring ideas.
Home. Site Map. Subscribe. More at expLog.

War Time Proofs

type:: #StrangeLoop2023

Notes

Proofs and programs

Topos Institute

Revolution in the sky

in math

in computation

1600s galileo, copernicus figure out about the position of the earth and sun / published

died in house arrest

1835 were removed from inquisition index

~300 year revolution

Revolution in Mathematics

19th-20th century beginning

algebra/etc. changes happened this century

curry-howard correspondence

proofs as types, 1908 --

PWL 2015 curry howard correspondence youtube

lambda calculus <-> cartesian closed categories <-> intuitionistic propositional logic <->

proofs as propositions wadler

hilbert: consistent, complete, conservative, decidable

godel: incompleteness theorem

liberalized version of hilbert's program: make notions as intuitively clear

lenses...

can help with automatic differetiation

Kunal