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Re:Where Do Type Systems Come From? by hinkley on Friday July 07, 2017 @07:05PM (#14722912)
I learned set theory and discrete math from this guy:

http://internethalloffame.org/about/advisory-board/cl-liu

Easily my second favorite instructor, possibly my favorite. I felt pretty prepared to deal with analysis and design in statically typed languages just from that grounding in set theory and logic. Fond of saying things like, "We have a box. What's inside that box? Another box. What's inside that box? We don't care."

Now retired, he was an early proponent of distance learning, so surely some of his stuff is accessible still.

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