Church’s Coincidences · Stephen C. Kleene:Recursive functions General recursive functions of...
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Church’s Coincidences
Philip WadlerUniversity of Edinburgh
Summer School on Trends in ComputingTarragona, 25–26 July 2013
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Part I
About Coincidences
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Two Kinds of Coincidence
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Part II
The First Coincidence:Effective Computability
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Effective Computability
• Alonzo Church: Lambda calculusAn unsolvable problem of elementary number theory(Abstract) Bulletin the American Mathematical Society, May 1935
• Stephen C. Kleene: Recursive functionsGeneral recursive functions of natural numbers(Abstract) Bulletin the American Mathematical Society, July 1935
• Alan M. Turing: Turing machinesOn computable numbers, with an application to the EntscheidungsproblemProceedings of the London Mathematical Society, received 25 May 1936
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David Hilbert (1862–1943)
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David Hilbert (1928) — Entscheidungsproblem
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David Hilbert (1930) — An Address
Konigsberg, 8 September 1930Society of German Scientists and Physicians
“We must know! We will know!”
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Kurt Godel (1906–1978)
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Kurt Godel (1930) — Incompleteness
Konigsberg, 7 September 1930Society of German Scientists and Physicians
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Alonzo Church (1903–1995)
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Alonzo Church (1932) — λ-calculus
f (x) = x2 + x + 42
⇓
f = λx. x2 + x + 42
∀x.A = ∀ (λx.A)
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Alonzo Church (1932) — λ-calculus
Then Now
x x
λx[N ] (λx.N)
{L}(M) (LM)
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Alonzo Church (1932) — Lambda Calculus
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Alonzo Church (1936) — Undecidability
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Stephen Kleene (1909–1994)
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Stephen Kleene (1932) — Predecessor
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Stephen Kleene (1936) — Recursive Functions
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Alan Turing (1912–1954)
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Alan Turing (1936) — Turing Machine
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Robin Gandy (1988) — Turing’s Theorem
Theorem: Any function which can be calculated by a human being can becomputed by a Turing Machine.
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Alan Turing (1937) — Equivalence
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Alan Turing (1946) — Automatic Computing Engine
“Instruction tables will have to be made up by mathematicians with com-puting experience and perhaps a certain puzzle-solving ability. There needbe no real danger of it ever becoming a drudge, for any processes that arequite mechanical may be turned over to the machine itself.”
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Part III
The Second Coincidence:Propositions as Types
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Gerhard Gentzen (1909–1945)
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Gerhard Gentzen (1935) — Natural Deduction
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Gerhard Gentzen (1935) — Natural Deduction
[A]x···B
⊃-IxA⊃B
A⊃B A⊃-E
B
A B&-I
A&B
A&B&-E0
A
A&B&-E1
B
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Gerhard Gentzen (1935) — Natural Deduction
[A]x···B
⊃-IxA⊃B
···A⊃-E ⇒
···A···B
B
···A
···B
&-IA&B
&-E0 ⇒
···A
A
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A proof
[B &A]z&-E1
A
[B &A]z&-E0
B&-I
A&B⊃-Iz
(B &A)⊃ (A&B)
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Simplifying a proof
[B &A]z&-E1
A
[B &A]z&-E0
B&-I
A&B⊃-Iz
(B &A)⊃ (A&B)
[B]y [A]x&-I
B &A⊃-E
A&B
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Simplifying a proof
[B &A]z&-E1
A
[B &A]z&-E0
B&-I
A&B⊃-Iz
(B &A)⊃ (A&B)
[B]y [A]x&-I
B &A⊃-E
A&B⇓
[B]y [A]x&-I
B &A&-E1
A
[B]y [A]x&-I
B &A&-E0
B&-I
A&B
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Simplifying a proof
[B &A]z&-E1
A
[B &A]z&-E0
B&-I
A&B⊃-Iz
(B &A)⊃ (A&B)
[B]y [A]x&-I
B &A⊃-E
A&B⇓
[B]y [A]x&-I
B &A&-E1
A
[B]y [A]x&-I
B &A&-E0
B&-I
A&B⇓
[A]x [B]y&-I
A&B
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Alonzo Church (1903–1995)
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Alonzo Church (1940) — Typed λ-calculus
[x : A]x···
N : B⊃-Ix
λx.N : A⊃B
L : A⊃B M : A⊃-E
LM : B
M : A N : B&-I
〈M,N〉 : A&B
L : A&B&-E0
L0 : A
L : A&B&-E1
L1 : B
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Alonzo Church (1940) — Typed λ-calculus
[x : A]x···
N : B⊃-Ix
λx.N : A⊃B
···M : A
⊃-E ⇒
···M : A···
N{M/x} : B(λx.N)M : B
···M : A
···N : B
&-I〈M,N〉 : A&B
&-E0 ⇒
···M : A
〈M,N〉0 : A
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Alan Turing (1942)
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A program
[z : B &A]z&-E1
z1 : A
[z : B &A]z&-E0
z0 : B&-I
〈z1, z0〉 : A&B⊃-Iz
λz. 〈z1, z0〉 : (B &A)⊃ (A&B)
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Evaluating a program
[z : B &A]z&-E1
z1 : A
[z : B &A]z&-E0
z0 : B&-I
〈z1, z0〉 : A&B⊃-Iz
λz. 〈z1, z0〉 : (B &A)⊃ (A&B)
[y : B]y [x : A]x&-I
〈y, x〉 : B &A⊃-E
(λz. 〈z1, z0〉) 〈y, x〉 : A&B
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Evaluating a program
[z : B &A]z&-E1
z1 : A
[z : B &A]z&-E0
z0 : B&-I
〈z1, z0〉 : A&B⊃-Iz
λz. 〈z1, z0〉 : (B &A)⊃ (A&B)
[y : B]y [x : A]x&-I
〈y, x〉 : B &A⊃-E
(λz. 〈z1, z0〉) 〈y, x〉 : A&B
⇓[y : B]y [x : A]x
&-I〈y, x〉 : B &A
&-E1〈y, x〉1 : A
[y : B]y [x : A]x&-I
〈y, x〉 : B &A&-E0
〈y, x〉0 : B&-I
〈〈y, x〉1, 〈y, x〉0〉 : A&B
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Evaluating a program
[z : B &A]z&-E1
z1 : A
[z : B &A]z&-E0
z0 : B&-I
〈z1, z0〉 : A&B⊃-Iz
λz. 〈z1, z0〉 : (B &A)⊃ (A&B)
[y : B]y [x : A]x&-I
〈y, x〉 : B &A⊃-E
(λz. 〈z1, z0〉) 〈y, x〉 : A&B
⇓[y : B]y [x : A]x
&-I〈y, x〉 : B &A
&-E1〈y, x〉1 : A
[y : B]y [x : A]x&-I
〈y, x〉 : B &A&-E0
〈y, x〉0 : B&-I
〈〈y, x〉1, 〈y, x〉0〉 : A&B
⇓[x : A]x [y : B]y
&-I〈x, y〉 : A&B
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The Curry-Howard homeomorphismLC'90
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Haskell Curry (1900–1982) / William Howard (1926–)
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Howard 1980
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Curry-Howard correspondence
propositions as types
proofs as programs
normalisation of proofs as evaluation of programs
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Curry-Howard correspondenceNatural Deduction ↔ Typed Lambda Calculus
Gentzen (1935) Church (1940)
Type Schemes ↔ ML Type System
Hindley (1969) Milner (1975)
System F ↔ Polymorphic Lambda Calculus
Girard (1972) Reynolds (1974)
Modal Logic ↔ Monads (state, exceptions)
Lewis (1910) Kleisli (1965), Moggi (1987)
Classical-Intuitionistic Embedding ↔ Continuation Passing Style
Godel (1933) Reynolds (1972)
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Functional Languages
• Lisp (McCarthy, 1960)
• Iswim (Landin, 1966)
• Scheme (Steele and Sussman, 1975)
• ML (Milner, Gordon, Wadsworth, 1979)
• Haskell (Hudak, Peyton Jones, and Wadler, 1987)
• O’Caml (Leroy, 1996)
• Erlang (Armstrong, Virding, Williams, 1996)
• Scala (Odersky, 2004)
• F# (Syme, 2006)
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Language Popularity Index
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Language Popularity Index—Discussion
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Proof systems
• Automath (de Bruijn, 1970)
• Type Theory (Martin Lof, 1975)
• Mizar (Trybulec, 1975)
• ML/LCF (Milner, Gordon, and Wadsworth, 1979)
• NuPrl (Constable, 1985)
• HOL (Gordon and Melham, 1988)
• Coq (Huet and Coquand, 1988)
• Isabelle (Paulson, 1993)
• Epigram (McBride and McKinna, 2004)
• Agda (Norell, 2005)
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Part IV
Conclusion:Philosophy
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Two Kinds of Coincidence
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How to talk to aliens
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Independence Day
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A universal programming language?
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Multiverses
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Lambda is Omniversal
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