Haskell Curry

Haskell Brooks Curry was an American mathematician and computer scientist, best known for his work in combinatory logic. Although its initial concept was based on a paper by Moses Schönfinkel, Curry did much of the development. Born on September 12, 1900 in Millis, Massachusetts, he entered Harvard University in 1916 to study medicine but switched to mathematics, did graduate work in electrical engineering at MIT, and took his interest in mathematical logic from Principia Mathematica. In 1927 he discovered the work of Moses Schönfinkel, and he then moved to the University of Göttingen to work with Heinrich Behmann and Paul Bernays. He is also known for Curry's paradox and the Curry-Howard correspondence, and the programming languages Haskell, Brook and Curry and the concept of currying are named for him. He died in 1982.