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Thierry Coquand Alive

Thierry Coquand
KindPerson
Born1961
StatusAlive
Fieldprogramming languages
Sourceen.wikipedia.org ↗

Co-created the Calculus of Constructions — the dependent-type theory underneath Coq.

Created Rocq

Created the Calculus of Constructions (with Huet) and developed cubical type theory — the math Lean and modern Coq/Rocq run on.\n\nThierry Coquand's work is the theoretical foundation of modern proof assistants.

Sources

  1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thierry_Coquand