Logique

1977 · réf. 009092 — Wroclaw Poland: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego 1977. Very Good condition. 16.5 cm x 23.5 cm. Bound in the original green wrappers a little rubbed at the edges. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are clean. NO underlining. NO highlighting. Text in Polish except for a 2 page summary in French which has a brief margin note in pencil that appears to be in Professor Church's handwriting. Matematyka Fizyka Astronomia XXI. Tables. Graphs. Bibliographical references. This is one of several dozen books and periodicals from Alonzo Church's library that we were lucky enough to purchase at auction in New Jersey. Several of the books contain his signature or a presentation inscription to him. Unfortunately this copy does not have those signs of his ownership. But please check our inventory for several others that do. Alonzo Church 1903 - 1995 was professor of mathematics at Princeton University 1929-1967 and of mathematics and philosophy at UCLA 1967-1990. He was the founding editor of the JOURNAL OF SYMBOLIC LOGIC. Among his most influential contributions are Church's Theorem Church's Thesis and the Lambda Calculus. His work was of major importance in mathematical logic recursion theory theoretical computer science and functional programming languages in general. Professor Church's creation of lambda calculus was the foundation for the LISP programming language and provided the semantic model for ALGOL. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences British Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Church is regarded by many as the greatest American logician of the 20th century. For more on Church's contributions see items 250 251 321 394 and 533 in Hook and Norman's ORIGINS OF CYBERSPACE A LIBRARY ON THE HISTORY OF COMPUTING. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good condition. 101pp. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego Paperback