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The Impact of the Lambda Calculus in Logic and Computer Science

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 January 2014

Henk Barendregt
Henk Barendregt*
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Computing Science Institute, Nijmegen University, The Netherlands.E-mail: henk@cs.kun.nl
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Abstract

One of the most important contributions of A. Church to logic is his invention of the lambda calculus. We present the genesis of this theory and its two major areas of application: the representation of computations and the resulting functional programming languages on the one hand and the representation of reasoning and the resulting systems of computer mathematics on the other hand.

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Bulletin of Symbolic Logic , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , June 1997 , pp. 181 - 215
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Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 1997

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