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lambda calculus
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lambda calculus
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(Philosophy / Logic) (Electronics & Computer Science / Computer Science) Logic Computing a formalized description of functions and the way in which they combine, developed by Alonzo Church and used in the theory of certain high-level programming languages
[from the use of the symbol lambda (λ) to represent the mathematical functions]


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00 Paperback London Mathematical Society lecture note series; 316 QA9 Four tutorial articles overview some of the well-established developments of linear logic: category theory, proof nets and lambda-calculus, programming, and linearity and non-linearity in distributed computations.
 
 
 
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