nLab
computer science

Context

Type theory

natural deduction metalanguage, practical foundations

  1. type formation rule
  2. term introduction rule
  3. term elimination rule
  4. computation rule

type theory (dependent, intensional, observational type theory, homotopy type theory)

syntax object language

computational trinitarianism = propositions as types +programs as proofs +relation type theory/category theory

logiccategory theorytype theory
trueterminal object/(-2)-truncated objecth-level 0-type/unit type
falseinitial objectempty type
proposition(-1)-truncated objecth-level 1-type/h-prop
proofgeneralized elementprogram
conjunctionproductproduct type
disjunctioncoproduct ((-1)-truncation of)sum type (bracket type of)
implicationinternal homfunction type
negationinternal hom into initial objectfunction type into empty type
universal quantificationdependent productdependent product type
existential quantificationdependent sum ((-1)-truncation of)dependent sum type (bracket type of)
equivalencepath space objectidentity type
equivalence classquotientquotient type
inductioncolimitinductive type, W-type, M-type
higher inductionhigher colimithigher inductive type
completely presented setdiscrete object/0-truncated objecth-level 2-type/preset/h-set
setinternal 0-groupoidBishop set/setoid
universeobject classifiertype of types
modalityclosure operator monadmodal type theory, monad (in computer science)

homotopy levels

semantics

Category theory

Contents

Idea

Computer science studies programs and languages to express them, as well as the operation, application and design of computers. This includes aspects relating to concurrency, semantics of programming languages, and aspects of mathematical logic.

From the nPOV, computer science is part of the computational trinity, together with type theory and category theory.

Some (theoretical) computer scientists

References

A discussion of foundations of programming languages is in

A suggestion for a classification of structures arising in computer science is in

An old discussion on the n-cat café can be found here. The discussion revolved around

  • Joseph Goguen, A categorical manifesto, Mathematical Structures in Computer Science 1 (1991), 49-67.

for which also see A Categorical Manifesto.

Other aspects are treated in

category: computer science

Revised on May 8, 2013 22:05:32 by Zoran Škoda (161.53.130.104)