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Paperback. Condition: Good condition. Primera edicion en espanol. Buenos Aires: Siglo XXI, 1973. Inscribed by the author: "To Professor Alonzo Church, with admiration and gratitude (signed) Thomas M. Simpson, Bs. As. 10/5/73." Good condition. 13.5 cm x 20 cm. Spine has several reading creases. Errata slip laid-in. Bound in the original white pictorial wrappers. This is one of several dozen books from Alonzo Church's library that we were lucky enough to purchase at auction. Several of the books, including this one, contain a presentation inscription to him. Alonzo Church (1903 - 1995) was professor of mathematics at Princeton University (1929-1967) and of mathematics and philosophy at UCLA (1967-1990). He was the founding editor of the JOURNAL OF SYMBOLIC LOGIC. Among his most influential contributions are Church's Theorem, Church's Thesis, and the Lambda Calculus. His work was of major importance in mathematical logic, recursion theory, theoretical computer science, and functional programming languages in general. Professor Church's creation of lambda calculus was the foundation for the LISP programming language and provided the semantic model for ALGOL. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, British Academy, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Church is regarded by many as the greatest American logician of the 20th century. [For more on Church's contributions, see items 250, 251, 321, 394, and 533 in Hook and Norman's ORIGINS OF CYBERSPACE, A LIBRARY ON THE HISTORY OF COMPUTING.]. INSCRIBED / SIGNED by the AUTHOR. Primera edicion en espanol. Softcover. Good condition. xvii, 476pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.