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    In lambda calculus, the ChurchRosser theorem states that, when applying reduction rules to terms, the ordering in which the reductions are chosen does...
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  • known for his part in the Church–Rosser theorem in lambda calculus. He also developed what is now called the "Rosser sieve" in number theory. He was part...
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  • of mathematical logic, Introduction to Mathematical Logic. The ChurchRosser theorem The lambda calculus emerged in his 1936 paper showing the unsolvability...
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  • form of a term, if one exists, is unique (as a corollary of the ChurchRosser theorem). However, a term may have more than one head normal form. In the...
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    calculus has this property is also known as the ChurchRosser theorem.) In a rewriting system with the ChurchRosser property the word problem may be reduced...
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  • (number theory) ChurchRosser theorem (lambda calculus) Clairaut's theorem (physics) Clapeyron's theorem (physics) Clark–Ocone theorem (stochastic processes)...
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  • Lambda calculus Church-Rosser theorem Calculus of constructions Combinatory logic Post correspondence problem Kleene's recursion theorem Recursively enumerable...
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  • gave a series of lectures on his theorems at Princeton in 1933–1934 to an audience that included Church, Kleene, and Rosser. By this time, Gödel had grasped...
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  • application of the reduction steps eventually terminates, then by the ChurchRosser theorem it will produce a β-normal form. Variable names are not needed if...
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  • Physics. Springer Verlag. Rosser, J. B. (1939). "An Informal Exposition of Proofs of Godel's Theorem and Church's Theorem". The Journal of Symbolic Logic...
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  • Tool for Automatic Formula Manipulation, with Application to the Church-Rosser Theorem" (PDF). Indagationes Mathematicae. 34: 381–392. ISSN 0019-3577....
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  • algorithm was proven to be impossible by Alonzo Church and Alan Turing in 1936. By the completeness theorem of first-order logic, a statement is universally...
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  • Referential transparency Currying Lambda abstraction ChurchRosser theorem Extensionality Church numeral Fixed point combinator SKI combinator calculus...
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  • In mathematical logic, Rosser's trick is a method for proving a variant of Gödel's incompleteness theorems not relying on the assumption that the theory...
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  • University Press. ISBN 9780521779203. Ohlebusch, Enno (1998). "Church-Rosser theorems for abstract reduction modulo an equivalence relation". Rewriting...
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    on Church's thesis". Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic. 28 (4): 490–498. Oct 1987. doi:10.1305/ndjfl/1093637645. Kleene–Brouwer order Kleene–Rosser paradox...
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    tool for automatic formula manipulation, with application to the Church-Rosser theorem." Indagationes Mathematicae (Proceedings). Vol. 75. No. 5. North-Holland...
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    full-time. Rosser was well known for his research in pure mathematics, logic (Rosser's trick, the Kleene–Rosser paradox, and the Church-Rosser theorem) and...
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  • Boyer–Moore theorem prover to prove metatheorems such as the tautology theorem, Godel's incompleteness theorem and the Church-Rosser theorem. He has contributed...
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  • Rxz_{0}\rightarrow \exists z_{1}(Rx_{1}z_{1}\land Rz_{0}z_{1})]} , and it is the ChurchRosser property. ◻ ◊ p → ◊ ◻ p {\displaystyle \Box \Diamond p\rightarrow \Diamond...
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  • 1965, p. 115 Lucas 2021. Kleene 1952. Rosser, "Informal Exposition of Proofs of Gödel's Theorem and Church's Theorem", reprinted in Davis 1965, p. 223 Kleene...
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  • music critic, complications from surgery. J. Barkley Rosser, 81, American logician (ChurchRosser theorem), aneurysm. Edwin Arthur Burtt, 96, American philosopher...
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  • sometimes called weak confluence. Theorem. For an ARS the following three conditions are equivalent: (i) it has the ChurchRosser property, (ii) it is confluent...
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  • (Sep., 1936), pp. 103–105. Rosser. J. B., 1939, An informal exposition of proofs of Gödel's Theorem and Church's Theorem, The Journal of Symbolic Logic...
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  • Alonzo Church (a system which had the lambda calculus as a consistent subsystem) and Curry's own system. However, unlike Church, Kleene, and Rosser, Curry...
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  • Reference. Retrieved 2022-06-12. Aaronson, Scott (21 July 2011). "Rosser's Theorem via Turing machines". Shtetl-Optimized. Retrieved 2 November 2022....
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    b} = {c, d}, and so: {b} = {a, b} \ {a} = {c, d} \ {c} = {d}, so b = d. Rosser (1953) employed a definition of the ordered pair due to Quine which requires...
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    Press. ISBN 978-0-262-68052-3. Rosser, J.B. (1939). "An Informal Exposition of Proofs of Godel's Theorem and Church's Theorem". Journal of Symbolic Logic...
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  • It is predicative, all well-typed terms are strongly normalizing and Church-Rosser and the property of being well-typed is decidable. However, type inference...
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  • convergent or canonical. Important theorems for abstract rewriting systems are that an ARS is confluent iff it has the ChurchRosser property, Newman's lemma (a...
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