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Haskell Curry

1900 - 1982

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Haskell Brooks Curry ( HAS-kəl; September 12, 1900 – September 1, 1982) was an American mathematician, logician and computer scientist. Curry is best known for his work in combinatory logic, whose initial concept is based on a paper by Moses Schönfinkel, for which Curry did much of the development. Curry is also known for Curry's paradox and the Curry–Howard correspondence. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Haskell Curry has received more than 453,226 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Haskell Curry is the 596th most popular mathematician (down from 505th in 2019), the 5,021st most popular biography from United States (down from 4,329th in 2019) and the 34th most popular American Mathematician.

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  • 450k

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  • 50.58

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.86

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.49

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Haskell Curry ranks 596 out of 1,004. Before him are Boris Delaunay, Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter, Edward Routh, Lipót Fejér, G. I. Taylor, and David Ruelle. After him are Arend Heyting, Wilhelm Jordan, Diederik Korteweg, Louis J. Mordell, Beppo Levi, and Benjamin Peirce.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Haskell Curry ranks 182. Before him are Kateryna Bilokur, Bruno Apitz, Giovanni Urbani, Bernardus Johannes Alfrink, Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt, and Karl-Jesko von Puttkamer. After him are Adlai Stevenson II, Maurice Dobb, Edward Stettinius Jr., Karel Teige, Charley Paddock, and Teodoro Picado Michalski. Among people deceased in 1982, Haskell Curry ranks 155. Before him are Lauri Virtanen, Karl Hein, Irmgard Keun, Renzo Rossellini, Sonny Stitt, and Vladislao Cap. After him are Fritz Laband, Adoniran Barbosa, Giorgio Abetti, Antonio Guzmán Fernández, Marietta Shaginyan, and René Dubos.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Haskell Curry ranks 5,021 out of 20,380. Before him are Frank J. Tipler (1947), Boz Scaggs (1944), Yvette Mimieux (1942), John Templeton (1912), James Coco (1930), and Daniel Baldwin (1960). After him are Francis Davis Millet (1848), Adlai Stevenson II (1900), Myrtle Bachelder (1908), Mark Milley (1958), George Sidney (1916), and Joan Osborne (1962).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United States

Among mathematicians born in United States, Haskell Curry ranks 34. Before him are Dennis Sullivan (1941), George David Birkhoff (1884), Mitchell Feigenbaum (1944), Julia Robinson (1919), John Tate (1925), and Ronald Graham (1935). After him are Louis J. Mordell (1888), Benjamin Peirce (1809), Michael Freedman (1951), Richard Montague (1930), Robert Axelrod (1943), and Leonard Eugene Dickson (1874).

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