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Church developed the lambda calculus and proved an undecidability result for first-order logic.
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Church developed the lambda calculus and proved an undecidability result for first-order logic.
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- J. J. O’Connor and E. F. Robertson — Alonzo Church, MacTutor, University of St Andrews — Biography, lambda calculus and Church’s theorem
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- J. J. O’Connor and E. F. Robertson — Alonzo Church, MacTutor, University of St Andrews — Biography, lambda calculus and Church’s theorem
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