Jacques Herbrand

Jacques Herbrand was a French mathematician and logician known for his significant contributions to computability theory and logic in the early 20th century. He developed Herbrand's theorem, which connects first-order logic with constructive proofs, providing a method to represent logical formulas in a more concrete form. His work laid foundational ideas for automated theorem proving and influenced later developments in computer science, particularly in logic programming. Herbrand's insights helped bridge the gap between abstract mathematical reasoning and practical computations, shaping our understanding of algorithms and their theoretical limits.