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'''Thierry Coquand''' is a French logician and computer scientist whose work has reshaped the foundations of constructive mathematics and dependently typed programming. He co-created the [[Coq proof assistant|Coq]] proof assistant with [[Gérard Huet]] in 1984, giving the world one of the first practical systems in which mathematical proofs and computer programs were the same kind of object. He later developed [[Cubical Type Theory]] with Marc Bezem and Simon Huber, providing a constructive account of univalence and higher-dimensional equality that does not require the univalent axiom itself — a move that turned homotopy type theory from a philosophical program into a computational one.

Coquand's intellectual trajectory is a single sustained argument: that mathematics is computation, that proofs are programs, and that the separation of logic from programming language design is a historical accident that formal methods are finally correcting. The systems he has built — Coq, Agda's foundations, and the cubical model — are not tools but demonstrations of this thesis in action.

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