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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
- The Church–Turing thesis
- Proving the undecidability of the Entscheidungsproblem
- The Frege–Church ontology
- The Church–Rosser theorem
See also
- Computation
- Computer science
- Entscheidungsproblem
- Lambda calculus
- Theoretical computer science
- Turing machine
External links
- Alonzo Church @ Wikipedia
