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28 Apr 2025
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The mystery of equality; the notion of type as a generalization of the notion of set

Thierry Coquand
Dependent type theory and mathematical formalization
28 Apr 2025
10:00 - 11:00
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    Monday 28 April 2025
    Salle 5, Site Marcelin Berthelot
    Open to all
    10:00 - 11:00
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    Lecture outline:

    • how to represent the notion of equality in type theory;
    • Voevodsky stratification of types;
    • a uniform definition of the notion of equivalence;
    • principle of univalence;
    • application of mathematical structures to the notion of equality and comparison with set theory.

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    Thierry Coquand

    Thierry Coquand

    Professor of Computer Science, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

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