Who invented lambda calculus?
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The question is asking for information about the inventor of lambda calculus, which is a formal system in mathematical logic and computer science for expressing computation based on function abstraction and application.
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Alonzo Church invented lambda calculus.
The lambda calculus was invented by Alonzo Church in the 1930s.
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The lambda calculus was invented by Alonzo Church in the 1930s.
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Alonzo Church introduced lambda calculus in the early 1930s as part of his research into the foundations of mathematics. It has since become a fundamental concept in computer science, particularly in the study of functional programming languages.
Sources
- Lambda calculus - Wikipedia - en.wikipedia.org
- Lambda calculus - UNC Computer Science - cs.unc.edu
- Alonzo Church > D. The λ-Calculus and Type Theory - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - plato.stanford.edu
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