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Paperback. Condition: Good+ condition. NOT a library discard (illustrator). First reprint June 1983 (so stated). Bologna [Italy]: International Logic Review, 1983. INSCRIBED/SIGNED by the AUTHOR directly on the front free endpaper: "To Alonzo Church, (signed) Franco Spisani." Laid in is a "With the compliments of the Editor" slip. Good+ condition. Small crease to bottom corner of the front wrap. NOT a library discard. Pages are clean and unmarked. Bilingual edition. Testo bilingue. Text in Italian with English translation on the facing pages. This volume was among several dozen books from Alonzo Church's library that we were lucky enough to purchase at auction in New Jersey. Please check our inventory for several others that are signed by 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. First reprint June 1983 (so stated). Softcover. Good+ condition. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 253pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.