Logique

Logica Studia Paul Bernays Dedicata

1959 · rif. 009067 — Neuchatel Suisse: Éditions du Griffon 1959. Very Good condition. 16 cm wide by 23.5 cm tall. A solid copy -- clean and tight. The spine is square and flat. One corner of front wrapper has a mild crease. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Bibliothèque scientifique no. 34. Festschrift containing 18 papers in various languages by Hao Wang Haskell B. Curry E. W. Beth Wilhelm Ackermann Rudolf Carnap A. A. Fraenkel Kurt Gödel George Kreisel A. Robinson F. Gonseth R. L. Goodstein Hans Hermes et al. Each paper has 3 abstracts -- in English German and French. Bound in the original brown wrappers printed in black and red. 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. 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. Between 1937 and 1954 Bernays wrote a series of articles published in the Journal of Symbolic Logic. Among Church's 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. 295pp. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. Éditions du Griffon Paperback