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Richard Statman

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Richard Statman
BornSeptember 6, 1946 (1946-09-06) (age 78)
Alma materStanford University
Scientific career
Fieldscomputer science
InstitutionsCarnegie Mellon
Doctoral advisorGeorg Kreisel

Richard Statman (born September 6, 1946) is an American computer scientist whose principal research interest is the theory of computation, especially symbolic computation. His research involves lambda calculus, type theory, and combinatory algebra.

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In 1974, Statman received his Ph.D. from Stanford University for his Ph.D. dissertation, supervised by Georg Kreisel, entitled Structural Complexity of Proofs. His achievements include the proof that the type inhabitation problem in simply typed lambda calculus is PSPACE-complete.

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