Lambda Calculus with Types

This handbook with exercises reveals the mathematical beauty of formalisms hitherto mostly used for software and hardware design and verification.

List of contributors; Preface; Introduction; Part I. Simple Types: 1. The simply typed lambda calculus; 2. Properties; 3. Tools; 4. Definability, unification and matching; 5. Extensions; 6. Applications; Part II. Recursive Types: 7. The systems; 8. Properties of recursive types; 9. Properties of terms with types; 10. Models; 11. Applications; Part III. Intersection Types: 12. An exemplary system; 13. Type assignment systems; 14. Basic properties; 15. Type and lambda structures; 16. Filter models; 17. Advanced properties and applications; Bibliography; Symbol index; Names index; Definitions index.