Alonzo Church

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Alonzo Church
Alonzo Church (June 141903 – August 111995) was an American mathematician and logician who was responsible for some of the foundations of theoretical computer science. Born in Washington, DC, he received a bachelor's degree from Princeton University in 1924, completing his Ph.D. there in 1927, under Oswald Veblen. After a post-doctoral fellowship at Göttingen, he taught at Princeton, 1929–1967, and at the University of California, Los Angeles, 1967–1990.
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Church, Alonzo
(b. 1903, Washington, DC, d. 1995, Hudson, OH, Ph.D. mathematics, Princeton, 1927). Church was a mathematician and a logician, and one of the founders of computer science. His work is of major importance in mathematical logic, recursion theory and in theoretical computer science.
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Alonzo Church
<person> A twentieth century mathematician and logician, and one of the founders of computer science. Church invented the lambda-calculus and posited a version of the Church-Turing thesis.
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