Iowa Type Theory Commute

A Strange Deal

Aaron Stump Season 7 Episode 7

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The Curry-Howard isomorphism for the law of excluded middle, as a radio drama.  I first saw a version of this story performed by Phil Wadler and Frank Pfenning (wearing fake horns!) at RTA in Nara, Japan in 2005.  This is my take on it.  In a subsequent episode, I will explain how the story illustrates the computational interpretation of the law of excluded middle.