Logique

1978 · réf. 006413 — Darmstadt Germany: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 1978. Near Fine condition. Clean square and tight. Pages are fresh and crisp. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Among this collection's 21 essays are 5 by Willard van Orman Quine and 3 by Alonzo Church i.e. Propositionen und Satze 1956; Ontologische Voraussetzungen 1958; and Intensionale Semantik 1951. Bound in the original gray cloth lettered in red and in gold over a red spine panel. This is one of 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 copy does not have those signs of his ownership. But please check our inventory for several others that do. Still the book contains 3 of his essays -- translated into German and printed here with his permission as stated in the acknowledgments. So it seems likely that the publisher sent a copy to him as a courtesy; and we believe this is almost certainly that copy. 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 Collected Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine condition/No Jacket. vi 372pp. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft Hardcover