Haskell Brooks Curry was an American mathematician and logician. The son of educator Samuel Silas Curry, he was educated at Harvard University and received a Ph.D. from Göttingen in 1930, under the supervision of David Hilbert. While at Göttingen, Curry read the published version of Moses Schönfinkel's 1920 lecture introducing combinatory logic, the fateful event in his career. He then wrote his Ph.D. thesis on combinatory logic. Wikipedia
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