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* [[Mathematics|Articles]] on computational and category theoretic branches of mathematics, and their role as a foundation for programming and Haskell itself.
 
* [[Mathematics|Articles]] on computational and category theoretic branches of mathematics, and their role as a foundation for programming and Haskell itself.
 
* [http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Blog_articles/Mathematics Articles about Haskell and mathetmatics]
 
* [http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Blog_articles/Mathematics Articles about Haskell and mathetmatics]
* [[Haskell and mathematics/Hierarchy|A mathematical class hierarchy for * Haskell]]. An initiative to develop a mathematically sound algebraic class hierarchy for Haskell.
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* [[Haskell and mathematics/Hierarchy|A mathematical class hierarchy for Haskell]]. An initiative to develop a mathematically sound algebraic class hierarchy for Haskell.
   
 
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Revision as of 07:39, 29 June 2007

Haskell is growing in popularity among mathematicians. As one blogger put it:

"after my involving myself in the subject, one thing that stands out is the relatively low distance between thought expressed in my ordinary day-to-day mathematical discourse, and thought expressed in Haskell code."

and

"How can Haskell not be the programming language that all mathematicians should learn?"

To paraphrase Hilbert ("Physics is too complicated for Physicists"), the relative obscurity of Haskell (a language with a strict notion of functions, higher-order-functions, and types) amongst mathematicians may be that:

"Haskell is too mathematical for many mathematicians."

This page collects resources for using Haskell to do mathematics: