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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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 . …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Logic, Meaning and Computation | Essays in Memory of Alonzo Church | C. Anthony Anderson (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | Synthese Library | xiii | Englisch | 2012 | Springer | EAN 9789401038911 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg, juergen[dot]hartmann[at]springer[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu.…

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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -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 . 660 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Logic, truth and number: The elementary genesis of arithmetic.- Second-order logic.- A representation of relation algebras using Routley-Meyer frames.- Church's set theory with a universal set.- 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.- Discriminating coded lambda terms.- -calculus as a foundation for mathematics.- Peano's lambda calculus: The functional abstraction implicit in arithmetic.- The undecidability of -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.- Alternative (1\*): A criterion of identity for intensional entities.- Nominalist paraphrase and ontological commitment.- Peace, justice and computation: Leibniz' program and the moral and political significance of Church's theorem.- Tarski's theorem and NFU.- Church's theorem and randomness.- Russellian type theory and semantical paradoxes.- The logic of sense and denotation: Extensions and applications.- Analysis, synonymy and sense.- The very possibility of language.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 660 pp. Englisch.…

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