Jean-Yves Girard
| Jean-Yves Girard | |
|---|---|
| Born |
1947 (age 68–69) |
| Nationality | French |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | CNRS |
| Alma mater |
École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud Paris Diderot University |
| Doctoral advisor | Jean-Louis Krivine |
| Doctoral students |
George Koletsos Yves Lafont Laurent Regnier |
Jean-Yves Girard (born 1947) is a French logician working in proof theory. He is the research director (emeritus) at the mathematical institute of Luminy.
He obtained the CNRS Silver medal in 1983 and is a member of the French Academy of Sciences.
Biography
Jean-Yves Girard is an alumnus of the École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud.
He made a name for himself in the 1970s with his proof of strong normalization in a system of second-order logic called System F. This result gave a new proof of Takeuti's conjecture, which was proven a few years earlier by William W. Tait, Moto-o Takahashi and Dag Prawitz. For this purpose, he introduced the notion of reducibility candidate ("candidat de réducibilité"). He is also credited with the discovery of linear logic; the geometry of interaction; ludics; and the mustard watch.[1]
Bibliography
- Ernest Nagel; James R. Newman; Kurt Gödel; Jean-Yves Girard (1989). Le théorème de Gödel. Éditions du Seuil.
- Jean-Yves Girard; P. Taylor; Yves Lafont (1989). Proofs and Types. Cambridge University Press.
- Jean-Yves Girard (2007). Le Point Aveugle, Cours de Logique. Hermann.
References
- ↑ Ringard, Yann-Joachim (1990). "Mustard watches: an integrated approach to time and food.". Retrieved 16 December 2014.
External links
- Girard's home page
- Jean-Yves Girard at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Girard's bibliography (via DBLP)
- Journées Jean-Yves Girard web site of 2007 conference in honour of Girard's 60th birthday