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Everything about Currying
Transforming a function in such a way that it only takes a single argument
In mathematics and computer science, currying is the technique of translating a function that takes multiple arguments into a sequence of families of functions, each taking a single argument. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: CurryingA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Currying Favour with the Algorithm: Online Sex Workers’ Efforts To Satisfy Patriarchal ExpectationsInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Step-By-Step Practical RecipesThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Currying the Heart: Curcumin and CardioprotectionCited 90 times
- Go sideways: Cartesian closed categoryA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Hom functorA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun gerund of curry: the technique of converting a function that takes multiple arguments into a sequence of functions that each take a single argument; an instance of using this technique.
Verb present participle and gerund of curry.
Verb present participle and gerund of curry.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Currying the Heart: Curcumin and Cardioprotection
“Currying favour with the locals”: Balti owners and business enclaves
Hiding behind the party brand or currying favor with constituents: Why do representatives engage in different types of constituency-oriented behavior?
Currying Favor: The Politics of British Educational and Cultural Policy in India, 1813-1854
Currying favour: eastern media influences and the Hausa video film
‘Charting a new course for prostate cancer’ – currying favor for docetaxel in hormone-sensitive metastatic prostate cancer
Currying Omnipotence
‘Currying Identities’: A Literary Re-Crafting of South-Asian Identities through Diasporic Women’s Cookbooks
🆕 Influential since 2022
📚 Books worth reading
Step-By-Step Practical RecipesGina Steer, Ann Nicol · 2015
50 Great Curries of IndiaCamellia Panjabi · 1994
The Curry SecretKris Dhillon · 1989
CurryLizzie Collingham, Lizzie Collingham · 2005
The complete book of curriesHarvey Day · 1966
Indian CookingLalita Ahmed · 1981
A Book of Curries and ChutneysWilliam B. Templeton Veach, Helen Evans Brown · 1963- 📕Curries from the Sultan's kitchenDoris Ady · 1968
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