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Essays in Memory of Alonzo Church

By: C. Anthony Anderson (Editor), Michael ZelÃ«ny (Editor)

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Hardcover | 31 January 2002

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Alonzo Church was undeniably one ofthe intellectual giants of theTwenti eth Century . These articles are dedicated to his memory and illustrate the tremendous importance his ideas have had in logic , mathematics, comput er science and philosophy . Discussions of some of thesevarious contributions have appeared in The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic, and th e interested reader is invited to seek details there . Here we justtry to give somegener al sense of the scope, depth,and value of his work. Church is perhaps best known for the theorem , appropriately called " C h u r c h ' s Theorem ", that there is no decision procedure forthelogical valid ity of formulas first-order of logic . A d ecision proce dure forthat part of logic would have come near to fulfilling Leibniz's dream of a calculus that could be mechanically used tosettle logical disputes . It was not to . be It could not be . What Church proved precisely is that there is no lambda-definable function that can i n every case providethe right answer , ' y e s ' or ' n o', tothe question of whether or not any arbitrarily given formula is valid .

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Non-Fiction Mathematics Mathematical Foundation Mathematical Logic Philosophy Philosophy & Logic Computing & I.T.Computer Science Language & Linguistics Linguistics Philosophy of Language

Preface
Remembering Alonzo Church
Logic. Logic, truth and number: The elementary genesis of arithmetic
Second-order logic
A representation of relation algebras using Routley-Meyer frames
Axioms of infinity in Church's type theory
Logical objects
The lambda calculus and adjoint functors
Atomic Boolean algebras and classical propositional logic
Improved decision procedures for pure relevant logic
The `triumph' of first-order languages
Equivalence relations and groups
Computation. Discriminating coded lambda terms
The undecidability of lambda-definability
A construction of the provable wellorderings of the theory of species
Semantics for first and higher order realizability
Language and equality theory in logic programming
Philosophy, Meaning, and Intensional Logic
Alternative (1*): A criterion of identity for intensional entities
Russellian type theory and semantical paradoxes
The logic of sense and denotation: Extensions and applications
The very possibility of language
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