Jean-Yves Girard (born 1947 in Lyon) is a French logician working in proof theory. His contributions include a proof of strong normalization in a system of second-order logic called system F; the invention of linear logic; the geometry of interaction; and ludics.
Alumnus of the École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud, Girard is a research director of CNRS in Marseille and a corresponding member of the French Academy of Sciences.
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