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Pierre Letouzey

Disciplines:
computer science
mathematical logic

Summary

French computer scientist who has contributed to the Coq proof assistant — particularly the extraction mechanism that generates executable programs from formal proofs.

Core Contribution

Developed the program extraction mechanism in Coq — allowing formal proofs to be automatically converted into executable Haskell, OCaml, or Scheme programs, realizing the Curry-Howard correspondence in a practical setting.

Historical Influences

Thierry Coquand Per Martin-Löf

Intellectual Lineage

Mathematical Logic Computer Science

Contemporaries & Peers

Stefan Berghofer

Minds Influenced

No recorded minds influenced.

Intellectual Posterity

Formal Verification Coq

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