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Past Member

Thierry Coquand

Funding provided by the Ellentuck Fund and the Charles Simonyi Endowment

Affiliation

Mathematics

Field of Study

Type Theory and Constructive Mathematics
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Thierry Coquand’s research is about the foundation and formalization of mathematics, mainly using ideas from type theory. During his stay, he would like to understand if one can justify constructively ­Voevodsky’s axiom of univalence, and to explore the formalization of mathematics in the univalent foundation.

Dates at IAS

Member
School of Mathematics

Degrees

University of Paris VII
Ph.D.
1985