Logique

1938 · Best.-Nr. 023614 — Leipzig Germany: S. Hirzel 1938. Good condition. Forschungen zur Logik und zur Grundlegung der exakten Wissenschaften new series no. 5. This was reviewed by W. V. Quine in Church's Journal of Symbolic Logic Volume 4 Issue 2 1939 87-88. This volume was among several dozen books 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 volume does not have those signs of his ownership. But please check our inventory for several others that do. One page does have brief margin notes that appear to be in his hand. 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. Good condition. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 24pp. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. S. Hirzel Paperback