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Alonzo Church
Alonzo Church (June 14, 1903 – August 11, 1995) was an American mathematician and logician who made major contributions to mathematical logic and the foundations of theoretical computer science. He is best known for the lambda calculus, Church–Turing thesis, proving the undecidability of the Entscheidungsproblem, Frege–Church ontology, and the Church–Rosser theorem. He also worked on philosophy of language (see e.g. Church 1970).
Life.
Alonzo Church was born on June 14, 1903, in Washington
gave rise to the (general, i.e. Herbrand-Gödel) form of recursion.
References.
- Stefan Bauer-Mengelberg (1966). Review of "The Undecidable: Basic Papers on Undecidable Propositions, Unsolvable problems and Computable Functions." "The Journal of Symbolic Logic", Vol. 31, No. 3. (Sep., 1966), pp. 484–494.
- Alonzo Church (1972). Review of "A Source Book in Mathematical Logic 1879–1931." "The Journal of Symbolic