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Haskell Brooks Curry

BIRTH DATE:  9/12/1900
DEATH DATE:  9/1/82
CRAFT:  Mathematics
NATIONALITY:  American
PROFESSION:  mathematician and logician
TRAVELS:  Known for Curry's Paradox, which occurs in naive set theory, and allows the derivation of an arbitrary sentence from a self-referring sentence and some apparently innocuous logical deduction rules, such as "If this sentence is true, then Santa Claus exists>"
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