PROOFS AND TYPES

JEAN-YVES GIRARD

Translated and with appendices by

PAUL TAYLORYVES LAFONT

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Cambridge University Press, 1989First Published 1989Reprinted with minor corrections 1990Reprinted for the Web 2003Originally printed in Great Britain at the University Press, Cambridge

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Preface

This little book comes from a short graduate course on typed

-calculus given atthe Universit´e Paris VII in the autumn term of 1986–7. It is not intended to beencyclopedic — the Church-Rosser theorem, for instance, is not proved — andthe selection of topics was really quite haphazard.Some very basic knowledge of logic is needed, but we will never go into tediousdetails. Some book in proof theory, such as [Gir], may be useful afterwards tocomplete the information on those points which are lacking.The notes would never have reached the standard of a book without theinterest taken in translating (and in many cases reworking) them by Yves Lafontand Paul Taylor. For instance Yves Lafont restructured chapter 6 and Paul Taylorchapter 8, and some sections have been developed into detailed appendices.The translators would like to thank Luke Ong, Christine Paulin-Mohring,Ramon Pino, Mark Ryan, Thomas Streicher, Bill White and Liz Wolf for theirsuggestions and detailed corrections to earlier drafts and also Samson Abramskyfor his encouragement throughout the project.In the

reprinting

an open problem on page 140 has been resolved.