Jean-Raymond Abrial

Jean-Raymond Abrial
J.-R. Abrial in 2012
Born(1938-11-06)6 November 1938
Versailles, France
Died26 May 2025(2025-05-26) (aged 86)
Marseille, France
Alma materÉcole Polytechnique
Stanford University
Known forZ notation, B-Method, Event-B
AwardsMember of the Academia Europaea (2006)
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science, software engineering, formal methods
InstitutionsOxford University Computing Laboratory, ETH Zurich
PatronsTony Hoare

Jean-Raymond Abrial (6 November 1938 – 26 May 2025) was a French computer scientist and inventor of the Z and B formal methods.