In lambda calculus, the Church–Rosser 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 Church–Rosser 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 Church–Rosser theorem). However, a term may have more than one head normal form. In the...
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Confluence (abstract rewriting) (redirect from Church-Rosser property)
calculus has this property is also known as the Church–Rosser theorem.) In a rewriting system with the Church–Rosser property the word problem may be reduced...
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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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Lambda calculus Church-Rosser theorem Calculus of constructions Combinatory logic Post correspondence problem Kleene's recursion theorem Recursively enumerable...
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(number theory) Church–Rosser theorem (lambda calculus) Clairaut's theorem (physics) Clapeyron's theorem (physics) Clark–Ocone theorem (stochastic processes)...
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application of the reduction steps eventually terminates, then by the Church–Rosser 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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Entscheidungsproblem (redirect from Church's Theorem)
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 Church–Rosser 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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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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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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Sahlqvist formula (redirect from Sahlqvist correspondence theorem)
Rxz_{0}\rightarrow \exists z_{1}(Rx_{1}z_{1}\land Rz_{0}z_{1})]} , and it is the Church–Rosser property. ◻ ◊ p → ◊ ◻ p {\displaystyle \Box \Diamond p\rightarrow \Diamond...
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Halting problem (redirect from Turing's halting theorem)
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 (Church–Rosser 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 Church–Rosser property, (ii) it is confluent...
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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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(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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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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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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Ordered pair (section Quine–Rosser definition)
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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List of incomplete or incorrect mathematical proofs (redirect from List of published false theorems)
five color theorem. The four-color theorem was eventually proved by Kenneth Appel and Wolfgang Haken in 1976. Schröder–Bernstein theorem. In 1896 Schröder...
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Application to the Entscheidungsproblem". It was the second proof (after Church's theorem) of the negation of Hilbert's Entscheidungsproblem; that is, the conjecture...
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York: Raven Press, ISBN 9780486432281. Papers include those by Gödel, Church, Rosser, Kleene, and Post. Dummett, Michael (1991), The Logical Basis of Metaphysics...
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