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  1. Alonzo Church (June 14, 1903 – August 11, 1995) was an American mathematician, computer scientist, logician, and philosopher who made major contributions to mathematical logic and the foundations of theoretical computer science. [2] He is best known for the lambda calculus, the Church–Turing thesis, proving the unsolvability of the ...

  2. Oct 21, 2021 · Alonzo Church (1903–1995) was a renowned mathematical logician, philosophical logician, philosopher, teacher and editor. He was one of the founders of the discipline of mathematical logic as it developed after Cantor, Frege and Russell.

  3. Aug 11, 1995 · His work is of major importance in mathematical logic, recursion theory, and in theoretical computer science. Early contributions included the papers On irredundant sets of postulates (1925), On the form of differential equations of a system of paths (1926), and Alternatives to Zermelo's assumption (1927).

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  5. Apr 16, 2024 · Alonzo Church (June 14, 1903 – August 11, 1995) was an eminent US mathematician and logician with works of major importance in mathematical logic, recursion theory, and theoretical computer science. He is best known for the lambda calculus, Church-Turing thesis, proving the undecidability of the Entscheidungsproblem, Frege–Church ontology ...

  6. Apr 30, 2024 · Alonzo Church (born June 14, 1903, Washington, D.C., U.S.—died Aug. 11, 1995, Hudson, Ohio) was a U.S. mathematician. He earned a Ph.D. from Princeton University. His contributions to number theory and the theories of algorithms and computability laid the foundations of computer science.

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  7. Sep 5, 1995 · Alonzo Church, an eminent contributor to mathematical logic and teacher of a generation of American logicians, died in Hudson, Ohio, on Aug. 11. He was 92.

  8. Alonzo Church (June 14, 1903 – August 11, 1995) was an American mathematician and logician whose best-known accomplishment is the proposal about the notion of computability, called the Church-Turing thesis.

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