• Alonzo Church (June 14, 1903 – August 11, 1995) was an American mathematician, computer scientist, logician, and philosopher who made major contributions...
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  • a Turing machine. The thesis is named after American mathematician Alonzo Church and the British mathematician Alan Turing. Before the precise definition...
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  • S. comedian Alonzo Church (1903–1995), U.S. mathematician and computer scientist Alonzo Clemons, U.S. autistic savant clay sculptor Alonzo B. Coons (1841–1914)...
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  • whether a given statement is provable using the rules of logic. In 1936, Alonzo Church and Alan Turing published independent papers showing that a general...
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    "universal" nature was introduced by Alonzo Church. Church's work intertwined with Turing's to form the basis for the Church–Turing thesis. This thesis states...
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    sequences of additional reductions. The theorem was proved in 1936 by Alonzo Church and J. Barkley Rosser, after whom it is named. The theorem is symbolized...
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    Alonzo Church (April 9, 1793 – May 18, 1862) was the sixth president of the University of Georgia (UGA). He served in that capacity from 1829 until his...
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  • simulate any Turing machine. It was introduced by the mathematician Alonzo Church in the 1930s as part of his research into the foundations of mathematics...
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    January 25, 1994) was an American mathematician. One of the students of Alonzo Church, Kleene, along with Rózsa Péter, Alan Turing, Emil Post, and others...
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  • the natural numbers using lambda notation. The method is named for Alonzo Church, who first encoded data in the lambda calculus this way. Terms that...
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    programming languages themselves. The lambda calculus, developed by Alonzo Church and Stephen Cole Kleene in the 1930s, is considered by some to be the...
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  • established, in cooperation with EATCS, EACSL and the Kurt Gödel Society, the Alonzo Church Award for Outstanding Contributions to Logic and Computation. The list...
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    after Alonzo Church's equivalent proof using his lambda calculus, Turing's approach is considerably more accessible and intuitive than Church's. It also...
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  • theories that have been proposed as foundations are: Typed λ-calculus of Alonzo Church Intuitionistic type theory of Per Martin-Löf Most computerized proof-writing...
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  • refers to the lambda calculus, a mathematical formalism invented by Alonzo Church, with which Lisp is intimately connected, and references the Knights...
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    Conference on Real Numbers and Computers, Odense University, pp. 91–109 Church, Alonzo (1936). "An Unsolvable Problem of Elementary Number Theory". The American...
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  • calculus. The simply typed lambda calculus was originally introduced by Alonzo Church in 1940 as an attempt to avoid paradoxical use of the untyped lambda...
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    University in 1959. He is one of many logicians to have studied with Alonzo Church. He was born on May 25, 1919, in Far Rockaway, Queens, New York, to...
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  • for other data types. Anonymous functions originate in the work of Alonzo Church in his invention of the lambda calculus, in which all functions are...
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  • Fraassen Pragmatism Susan Haack Nicholas Rescher Morton White Princeton Alonzo Church Jerry Fodor Kurt Gödel David Lewis Jaegwon Kim Saul Kripke Richard Rorty...
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  • 5, 1989) was an American logician, a student of Alonzo Church, and known for his part in the Church–Rosser theorem in lambda calculus. He also developed...
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  • Van Orman Quine's New Foundations. Alonzo Church and Arnold Oberschelp also published work on such set theories. Church speculated that his theory might...
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  • denotation), name, or concept (sense). The ontology was developed by Alonzo Church based on ideas of Gottlob Frege to resolve some paradoxes. The ontology...
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    figures in the field include Bertrand Russell, Thoralf Skolem, Emil Post, Alonzo Church, Alan Turing, Stephen Kleene, Willard Quine, Paul Benacerraf, Hilary...
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  • by enumerating states after each possible decision. In April 1936, Alonzo Church published his proof of the undecidability of a problem in the lambda...
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  • L. Popa, and W.-C. Tan) 2017 Foreign Member, Academia Europaea 2020 Alonzo Church Award for Outstanding Contributions to Logic and Computation (Co-Winner)...
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  • theory and computer science, particularly associated with the work of Alonzo Church and Alan Turing. The debate and discovery of the meaning of "computation"...
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  • last_name end;; let alonzo = new person "Alonzo" "Church" in (*Hello there, I am Alonzo Church.*) print_endline alonzo#get_last_name (*Church*) In PHP version...
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    \not \equiv } , also denoting the negation of equivalence, was used by Alonzo Church in 1944. J {\displaystyle J} (as a prefix operator, J ϕ ψ {\displaystyle...
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    concepts defined by logicians and mathematicians such as Alonzo Church and Alan Turing. Church first showed the existence of algorithmically unsolvable...
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