1. Foundations Of Mathematics > Logicians > Church, Alonzo Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z The ChurchTuring Thesis There are various http://www.einet.net/directory/962606/Church_Alonzo.htm

2. Church, Alonzo The Lost Language of Symbolism An Essential Guide for Recognizing and Interpreting Symbols of the Gospel, Introduction to Mathematical Logic, The Calculi of Lambda Conversion. http://www.artistactoractress.com/philosophers/church_alonzo.html

Church, Alonzo Average customer rating: Serious problems Absolutely wonderful.............. The Lost Language of Symbolism: An Essential Guide for Recognizing and Interpreting Symbols of the Gospel Alonzo L. Gaskill Manufacturer: Deseret Book Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items: Endowed from on High: Understanding the Symbols of the Endowment A Mormon in the White House?: 10 Things Every American Should Know about Mitt Romney The Mormon Way of Doing Business: Leadership and Success Through Faith and Family The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict (BK Life (Hardcover)) ASIN: Customer Reviews: Serious problems This book is intended for an L.D.S. (Mormon) audience and is organized as something of a dictionary of symbols (loosely defined to include the meaning of names) where readers can look up a symbol and see its meaning. The basic premise is that readers need to be able to understand what items in the Bible and Book of Mormon may have meant to the authors or those texts and to their period readers. Gaskill argues that modern readers do not appreciate the symbolism of these texts and therefore miss out on the deeper meaning of scriptural texts. This is a fine premise, as far as it goes, but Gaskill's book has some serious flaws, both in its concept and its implementation. The first, and most irritating, flaw is that the book is largely NOT about the symbolism of the texts: instead it is about Gaskill's readings of the text inspired by symbolic meanings. As such, the book is full of countless extended sermonettes on modern doctrinal issues that make only tenuous reference to the symbols in question, such as a passage that addresses the symbolism of aprons but spins out into a diatribe against birth control, surely an issue not high on the list of topics thought about in anitquity). Whatever one may think about the theology espoused, such digressions are not about understanding the texts on their own terms, but rather about trying to score doctrinal points and make the texts "mean" things that in many cases are highly unlikely.

3. Biographies Of Alonzo Church Biographies of Church Alonzo and more Church Alonzo biography. http://www.biography-center.com/biographies/629-Church_Alonzo.html

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5. Alonzo Church - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Church, Alonzo Alternative names Short description Mathematician Date of birth June 14, 1903 Place of birth Washington, DC, United States Date of death http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alonzo_Church

Alonzo Church From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search This article is about the mathematician and logician. For the president of the University of Georgia, see Alonzo S. Church Please help improve this article by expanding it. Further information might be found on the talk page (March 2007) Alonzo Church Alonzo Church (1903–1995) Born June 14, 1903 Washington, D.C. , USA Died November 8, 1995 Hudson, Ohio , USA Residence United States Nationality American Fields Mathematics Logic Institutions Princeton University UCLA Alma mater Princeton University ... Oswald Veblen Doctoral students C. Anthony Anderson Peter Andrews George Alfred Barnard Martin Davis ... Church–Rosser theorem 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 Frege–Church ontology , and the Church–Rosser theorem Contents Life Mathematical work Students Books ... edit Life Alonzo Church was born on June 14, 1903 in

6. Alonzo Church From FOLDOC Church, Alonzo Alonzo Church person A twentieth century mathematician and logician, and one of the founders of computer science. Church invented the lambdacalculus and posited http://www.johnsguide.com/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?Church, Alonzo

7. The Church-Turing Thesis (Stanford Encyclopedia Of Philosophy) Article in the Stanford Encyclopedia. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/church-turing/

Cite this entry Search the SEP Advanced Search Tools ... Please Read How You Can Help Keep the Encyclopedia Free The Church-Turing Thesis First published Wed Jan 8, 1997; substantive revision Mon Aug 19, 2002 There are various equivalent formulations of the Church-Turing thesis. A common one is that every effective computation can be carried out by a Turing machine. The Church-Turing thesis is often misunderstood, particularly in recent writing in the philosophy of mind. The Thesis and its History Misunderstandings of the Thesis Some Key Remarks by Turing Bibliography ... Related Entries The Thesis and its History The Church-Turing thesis concerns the notion of an effective or mechanical M is set out in terms of a finite number of exact instructions (each instruction being expressed by means of a finite number of symbols); M will, if carried out without error, produce the desired result in a finite number of steps; M can (in practice or in principle) be carried out by a human being unaided by any machinery save paper and pencil; M demands no insight or ingenuity on the part of the human being carrying it out.

8. Church, Alonzo - Hutchinson Encyclopedia Article About Church, Alonzo US mathematician. In 1936 he published the first precise definition of a calculable function, and so contributed enormously to the systematic development of the theory of algorithms. http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Church, Alonzo

9. Church, Alonzo (Am. Logician) Britannica CD http://www.uv.es/EBRIT/index/index_ch_urc_1.html

Britannica CD Index Articles Dictionary Help Church, Alonzo (Am. logician) association with Turing contribution to decision problem [Ref 1] passim to [Ref 2] metalogic [Ref 1] [Ref 2] [Ref 3] notation theory see also Church's thesis [Cross ref]

10. The Need For Abstract Entities Philosophical paper by Alonzo Church http://www.ditext.com/church/nae.html

The Need for Abstract Entities Alonzo Church Published in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Proceedings 80 (1951): pp. 100-113. We distinguish between a logistic system and a formalized language on the basis that the former is an abstractly formulated calculus for which no interpretation is fixed, and thus has a syntax and no semantics; but the latter is a logistic system together with an assignment of meanings to its expressions. As primitive basis of a logistic system it suffices to give, in a familiar fashion: The list of primitive symbols or vocabulary of the system (together usually with a classification of the primitive symbols into categories, which will be used in stating the formation rules and rules of inference). The formation rules , determining which finite sequences of primitive symbols are to be well-formed expressions, determining certain categories of well-formed expressions among which we shall assume that at least the category of sentence is included and determining (in case variables are included among the primitive symbols) which occurences of variables in a well-formed expression are free occurences and which are bound occurences.

11. Church, Alonzo Definition Of Church, Alonzo In The Free Online Encyclopedia. Church, Alonzo (born June 14, 1903, Washington, D.C., U.S.—died Aug. 11, 1995, Hudson, Ohio) U.S. mathematician. He earned a Ph.D. from Princeton University. http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Church, Alonzo

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13. Alonzo Church - Wikipedia, La Enciclopedia Libre Biograf a del matem tico y l gico con enlaces a t rminos relevantes. http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alonzo_Church

Alonzo Church De Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre Saltar a navegación búsqueda Alonzo Church 14 de junio de 11 de agosto de ), matemático y lógico norteamericano responsable por crear la base de la computación teórica . Nacido en la ciudad de Washington , se diplomó en la Universidad de Princeton en y obtuvo su doctorado en , donde ejerció como profesor entre y Su obra más conocida es el desarrollo del cálculo lambda , y su trabajo de que muestra la existencia de problemas indecidibles . Este trabajo precedió el famoso trabajo de su alumno Alan Turing sobre el problema de parada que también demostró la existencia de problemas irresolubles por dispositivos mecánicos. Luego de revisar la tesis doctoral de Turing, demostraron que el cálculo lambda y la máquina de Turing utilizada para expresar el problema de parada tenían igual poder de expresión; posteriormente demostraron que una variedad de procesos mecánicos alternos para realizar cálculos tenían poder de cómputo equivalente. Como resultado se postuló la Tesis de Church-Turing Entre los más conocidos estudiantes de doctorado de Church están Stephen Kleene J. Barkley Rosser

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16. Church Summary Biography from the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive. http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Church.html

Alonzo Church Click the picture above to see a larger version Full MacTutor biography [Version for printing] List of References (13 books/articles) Mathematicians born in the same country Show birthplace location Additional Material in MacTutor Gian-Carlo Rota on Alonzo Church Honours awarded to Alonzo Church (Click below for those honoured in this way) Speaker at International Congress Other Web sites Gian-Carlo Rota Princeton (Interview with Church) Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (The Church-Turing thesis) Mathematical Genealogy Project Previous (Chronologically) Next Main Index Previous (Alphabetically) Next Biographies index JOC/EFR © November 2004 The URL of this page is: http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Mathematicians/Church.html

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18. The Bulletin Of Symbolic Logic, December 1995 Contains obituary by H. B. Enderton. http://www.math.ucla.edu/~asl/bsl/0104-toc.htm

The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic Volume 1, Issue 4, December 1995 Articles Inner models and large cardinals , by Ronald Jensen, pages 393 407. Singular cardinals and the PCF theory , by Thomas Jech, pages 408 424. The complexity of propositional proofs , by Alasdair Urquhart, pages 425 467. Communications , by Michael Rathjen, pages 468 485. Obituaries In memoriam: Alonzo Church, 1903 1995 , by H. B. Enderton, pages 486 488. Meetings of the Association European ASL Summer Meeting, Keele University, 1993, addition , pages 489 490. List of officers and committees of the Association for Symbolic Logic , pages 491 534. List of members of the Association for Symbolic Logic , pages 491 534. Notices , pages 535 540.

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20. Alonzo Church Definition - Computer Dictionary Online Church, Alonzo Alonzo Church person A twentieth century mathematician and logician, and one of the founders of computer science. Church invented the lambdacalculus and http://www.hobbyprojects.com/computer-terms-dictionary/computer-dictionary-c/def

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