Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Alonzo Church

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Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Alonzo Church was a renowned American mathematician, logician, philosopher, professor and editor, who made major contributions to mathematical logic and the foundations of theoretical computer science. He is best known for the lambda calculus, the Church–Turing thesis, proving the unsolvability of the Entscheidungsproblem, the Frege–Church ontology, and the Church–Rosser theorem. He also worked on philosophy of language. Alongside his student Alan Turing, Church is considered one of the founders of computer science.

American - Mathematician | June 14, 1903 - August 11, 1995

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The only thing that might have annoyed some mathematicians was the presumption of assuming that maybe the axiom of choice could fail, and that we should look into contrary assumptions.

Alonzo Church

I was an undergraduate at Princeton, and I was pressed by the math department to go on to graduate school. Actually they gave me fellowships that paid my way, otherwise I would not have been able to continue.

Alonzo Church

Never had any mathematical conversations with anybody, because there was nobody else in my field.

Alonzo Church

I tried reading Hilbert. Only his papers published in mathematical periodicals were available at the time. Anybody who has tried those knows they are very hard reading.

Alonzo Church

Well it was not exactly a dissertation in logic, at least not the kind of logic you would find in Whitehead and Russell's Principia Mathematica for instance. It looked more like mathematics; no formalized language was used.

Alonzo Church

Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Alonzo Church

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