Coquand and Huet: the calculus of constructions

What changed

Unified dependent and polymorphic typing in a constructive calculus for proofs and programs.

Scientific scope

The record is the exact 1988 Information and Computation article. Automath, earlier thesis work, the calculus of inductive constructions, Coq/Rocq implementations and later extensions remain separate.

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The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. The record is the exact 1988 Information and Computation article. Automath, earlier thesis work, the calculus of inductive constructions, Coq/Rocq implementations and later extensions remain separate.

Contributors

• Thierry Coquand · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
• Gérard Huet · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.

• Rocq project record for The Calculus of Constructions
• Elsevier record for The Calculus of Constructions

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