the Church–Turing thesis (also known as computability thesis, the Turing–Church thesis, the Church–Turing conjecture, Church's thesis, Church's conjecture...
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The history of the Church–Turing 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 Church–Turing thesis, proving the unsolvability of the Entscheidungsproblem ("decision problem"), the Frege–Church ontology, and the Church–Rosser...
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Computable function (redirect from Turing computable)
true. Turing and Church independently showed in the 1930s that this set of natural numbers is not computable. According to the Church–Turing thesis, there...
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introduced by Alonzo Church. Church's work intertwined with Turing's to form the basis for the Church–Turing thesis. This thesis states that Turing machines, lambda...
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known physically-implementable Turing-complete systems are Turing-equivalent, which adds support to the Church–Turing thesis.[citation needed]) (Computational)...
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Hypercomputation (redirect from Super-Turing computation)
Hypercomputation or super-Turing computation is a set of hypothetical models of computation that can provide outputs that are not Turing-computable. For example...
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Super-recursive algorithm (redirect from Inductive turing machine)
argues that super-recursive algorithms can be used to disprove the Church–Turing thesis. This point of view has been criticized within the mathematical community...
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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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Computably enumerable set (redirect from Turing recognizable)
and some are not. According to the Church–Turing thesis, any effectively calculable function is calculable by a Turing machine, and thus a set S is computably...
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Busy beaver (section Physical Church–Turing thesis)
of the physical Church–Turing thesis. If the physical Church–Turing thesis holds, and all physically computable functions are Turing-computable, then...
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and the Church–Turing Thesis (the hypothesis of "every"). The notion of separating out Church's and Turing's theses from the "Church–Turing thesis" appears...
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functions under Church encoding. The Church–Turing thesis asserts that any computable operator (and its operands) can be represented under Church encoding.[dubious...
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and quantum physics, the Church–Turing–Deutsch principle (CTD principle) is a stronger, physical form of the Church–Turing thesis formulated by David Deutsch...
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Description was given by Turing Award winner Stephen Cook. Aside from a Turing machine, other equivalent (see Church–Turing thesis) models of computation...
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Halting problem (redirect from Lossy Turing machine)
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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Alan Turing Year The Annotated Turing Church–Turing thesis Church–Turing–Deutsch principle Good–Turing frequency estimation Object-Oriented Turing (programming...
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functions that can be computed by Turing machines (this is one of the theorems that supports the Church–Turing thesis). The μ-recursive functions are closely...
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Computability theory (redirect from Turing computability)
Alonzo Church, Rózsa Péter, Alan Turing, Stephen Kleene, and Emil Post. The fundamental results the researchers obtained established Turing computability...
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is equivalent, in computability terms, to Turing machines, thereby proving the physical Church–Turing thesis for the class of systems modelled by the GPAC...
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compare Turing machine, non-deterministic Turing machine, and alternating Turing machine. N. Blum (1983) introduced a model for which the thesis does not...
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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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Computability (section Power of Turing machines)
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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Supertask (section Super Turing machines)
natural numbers. This would, however, be in contradiction with the Church–Turing thesis. Some have argued this poses a problem for intuitionism, since the...
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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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all total functions are computable functions. The similarly named Church–Turing thesis states that every effectively calculable function is a computable...
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Entscheidungsproblem (redirect from Church's Theorem)
computable by a Turing machine (or equivalently, by those expressible in the lambda calculus). This assumption is now known as the Church–Turing thesis. The origin...
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sense that they are all encodable into each other, supports the Church-Turing thesis. Another shared feature is more rarely commented on: they all are...
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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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and field-programmable gate array-based hardware emulators. The Church–Turing thesis implies that theoretically, any operating environment can be emulated...
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