Abrial is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * André Joseph Abrial (1750–1828), French politician * (born 1783), general police chief in Lyon under Napoleon I * Georges Abrial (1898–1970), French aerodynamicist * Jean-Marie Charles Abrial (1879–1962), French admiral during World War II *

Jean-Raymond Abrial Jean-Raymond Abrial (6 November 1938 – 26 May 2025) was a French computer scientist and inventor of the Z and B formal methods. Abrial was a student at the École Polytechnique (class of 1958). Abrial's 1974 paper ''Data Semantics'' laid ...

(1938-2025), French computer scientist and creator of the

Z notation The Z notation is a formal specification language used for describing and modelling computing systems. It is targeted at the clear specification of computer programs and computer-based systems in general. History In 1974, Jean-Raymond Abria ...

and the

B-Method The B method is a method of software development based on B, a tool-supported formal method based on an abstract machine notation, used in the development of computer software. Overview B was originally developed in the 1980s by Jean-Raymond Abr ...

* General Stéphane Abrial, French air force general * , French guitarist

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