Robert Feys

Robert Feys (1889—1961) was a Belgian logician and philosopher, who worked at the University of Leuven (Belgium). In 1958 Feys and Haskell B. Curry devised the type inference algorithm for the simply typed lambda calculus (Combinatory Logic I).

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  • 1889

Date of death:

  • 1961 (age 72 years)

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