• the ChurchTuring thesis (also known as computability thesis, the TuringChurch thesis, the ChurchTuring conjecture, Church's thesis, Church's conjecture...
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  • The history of the ChurchTuring thesis ("thesis") involves the history of the development of the study of the nature of functions whose values are effectively...
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  • the ChurchTuring thesis, proving the unsolvability of the Entscheidungsproblem ("decision problem"), the Frege–Church ontology, and the Church–Rosser...
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    introduced by Alonzo Church. Church's work intertwined with Turing's to form the basis for the ChurchTuring thesis. This thesis states that Turing machines, lambda...
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  • computed by a Turing machine. Hypercomputers compute functions that a Turing machine cannot and which are, hence, not computable in the ChurchTuring sense....
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  • known physically-implementable Turing-complete systems are Turing-equivalent, which adds support to the ChurchTuring thesis.[citation needed]) (Computational)...
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  • Copeland, B. Jack. "The Church-Turing Thesis". Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Hodges, Andrew. "Did Church and Turing have a thesis about machines?". Copeland...
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  • true. Turing and Church independently showed in the 1930s that this set of natural numbers is not computable. According to the ChurchTuring thesis, there...
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    of the physical ChurchTuring thesis. If the physical ChurchTuring thesis holds, and all physically computable functions are Turing-computable, then...
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  • problem considered in Turing's 1936 paper ("does a Turing machine starting from a blank tape ever print a given symbol?"). However, Turing equivalence is rather...
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  • and quantum physics, the ChurchTuring–Deutsch principle (CTD principle) is a stronger, physical form of the ChurchTuring thesis formulated by David Deutsch...
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  • functions under Church encoding. The ChurchTuring thesis asserts that any computable operator (and its operands) can be represented under Church encoding.[dubious...
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  • and the ChurchTuring Thesis (the hypothesis of "every"). The notion of separating out Church's and Turing's theses from the "ChurchTuring thesis" appears...
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  • and some are not. According to the ChurchTuring thesis, any effectively calculable function is calculable by a Turing machine, and thus a set S is computably...
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  • argues that super-recursive algorithms can be used to disprove the ChurchTuring thesis. This point of view has been criticized within the mathematical community...
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  • Description was given by Turing Award winner Stephen Cook. Aside from a Turing machine, other equivalent (see ChurchTuring thesis) models of computation...
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  • functions that can be computed by Turing machines (this is one of the theorems that supports the ChurchTuring thesis). The μ-recursive functions are closely...
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    Alan Turing Year The Annotated Turing ChurchTuring thesis ChurchTuring–Deutsch principle Good–Turing frequency estimation Object-Oriented Turing (programming...
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    algorithm and computation with the Turing machine, which can be considered a model of a general-purpose computer. Turing is widely considered to be the father...
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  • computability notions weaker than Turing machines are studied in automata theory, while computability notions stronger than Turing machines are studied in the...
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  • is equivalent, in computability terms, to Turing machines, thereby proving the physical ChurchTuring thesis for the class of systems modelled by the GPAC...
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  • combinations. Lambda calculus is Turing complete, that is, it is a universal model of computation that can be used to simulate any Turing machine. Its namesake,...
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  • implications of quantum computing for the modern Church-Turing thesis. In short the modern Church-Turing thesis states that any computational model can be simulated...
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  • computable by a Turing machine (or equivalently, by those expressible in the lambda calculus). This assumption is now known as the ChurchTuring thesis. The origin...
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  • {\displaystyle B\leq _{T}A.} The equivalence classes of Turing equivalent sets are called Turing degrees. The Turing degree of a set X {\displaystyle X} is written...
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  • enough memory and time. Turing writes, "all digital computers are in a sense equivalent." The widely accepted ChurchTuring thesis holds that any function...
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  • Alonzo Church, Rózsa Péter, Alan Turing, Stephen Kleene, and Emil Post. The fundamental results the researchers obtained established Turing computability...
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  • natural numbers. This would, however, be in contradiction with the ChurchTuring thesis. Some have argued this poses a problem for intuitionism, since the...
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  • all total functions are computable functions. The similarly named ChurchTuring thesis states that every effectively calculable function is a computable...
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  • Turing's proof is a proof by Alan Turing, first published in November 1936 with the title "On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem"...
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