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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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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Turing machine (section Church's thesis)
"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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Entscheidungsproblem (redirect from Church's Theorem)
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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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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introduced by the mathematician Alonzo Church in the 1930s as part of his research into the foundations of mathematics. In 1936, Church found a formulation which...
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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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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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