Re: [TYPES] System F and System T names

2018-04-06 Thread Alejandro Díaz-Caro
[ The Types Forum, http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-list ] Dear Neel, Thank you for the info. That is exactly what I was looking for. Kind regards, Alejandro On Fri, 6 Apr 2018 at 14:03 Neel Krishnaswami < neelakantan.krishnasw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > 1. In "The

Re: [TYPES] System F and System T names

2018-04-06 Thread Neel Krishnaswami
[ The Types Forum, http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-list ] Hello, 1. In "The system F of variable types, fifteen years later", Girard remarks that there was no particular reason for the name F: However, in [3] it was shown that the obvious rules of conversion for this

[TYPES] System F and System T names

2018-04-06 Thread Alejandro Díaz-Caro
[ The Types Forum, http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-list ] Dear Type-theorists, Does anyone know where do the names System "F" and System "T" comes from? I am not asking who introduced those names (Girard System F, and Gödel System T), but what the "F" and the "T" means. Kind