Mathematical Conversations

An Introduction to Univalent Foundations

The Univalent Foundations of Voevodsky offer not only a formal language for use in computer verification of proofs, but also a foundation of mathematics alternative to set theory, in which propositions and their proofs are mathematical objects, and which offers a hierarchy of objects more general than sets ("types"), which are worthy of study in their own right. I'll try to give a flavor of that foundation for mathematicians, contrasting it with set theory as a foundation.

Date & Time

February 07, 2018 | 6:00pm – 7:00pm

Location

Dilworth Room

Speakers

Daniel Grayson

Affiliation

University of Illinois; Professor Emeritus, School of Mathematics

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