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2 unusual facts about Haskell Curry


Haskell Curry

In 1927, while an instructor at Princeton University, he discovered the work of Moses Schönfinkel in combinatory logic.

Curry is best known for his work in combinatory logic; while the initial concept of combinatory logic was based on a single paper by Moses Schönfinkel, much of the development was done by Curry.


Derrick Henry Lehmer

From 1945-1946, Lehmer served on the Computations Committee at Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland, a group established as part of the Ballistics Research Laboratory to prepare the ENIAC for utilization following its completion at the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering; the other Computations Committee members were Haskell Curry, Leland Cunningham, and Franz Alt.


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