Latex 17th century, latex has been used as a term for the fluid substance in plants. It serves mainly as defense against herbivorous insects. Latex is not to be confused with plant sap; it is a separate substance, separately produced, and with separate functions. The word latex is also used to refer to natural latex rubber, particularly non-vulcanized rubber. Such is the case in products like latex gloves, latex condoms and latex clothing. Originally, the name given to latex by indigenous Equator tribes who cultivated the plant was “caoutchouc”, from the words “caa” (tear) and “ochu” (tree), because of the way
History of type theory derivations in logics. Howard showed that the typed lambda calculus corresponded to intuitionistic natural deduction. (That is, natural deduction without the Law of excluded middle.) The connection between types and logic lead to a lot of subsequent research to find new type theories for existing logics and new logics for existing type theories. Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn created the type theory Automath as a mathematical foundation for the Automath system, which could verify the correctness of proofs. The system developed and added features over time as type theory developed. Per Martin-Löf found a type theory that corresponded to predicate logic