Alonzo Church was an American computer scientist, mathematician, logician, and philosopher who made major contributions to mathematical logic and the foundations of theoretical computer science, best known for the lambda calculus and the Church-Turing thesis. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Alonzo Church
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Alonzo Church proposed the equivalence of effective calculability with lambda-definability in 1936.
Alonzo Church introduced the lambda calculus in the early 1930s as a formal system for expressing computation.
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Alonzo Church (June 14, 1903, August 11, 1995) was an American computer scientist, mathematician, logician, and philosopher who made major contributions to mathematical logic and the foundations of theoretical computer science. ... best known for the lambda calculus, the Church-Turing thesis, proving the unsolvability of the Entscheidungsproblem, the Frege-Church ontology, and the Church-Rosser theorem.
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June 14, 1903
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August 11, 1995
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P569 (date of birth): 1903-06-14
1903-06-14
P570 (date of death): 1995-08-11
1995-08-11
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