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Tokyo: Privately Printed?, 1939. The title page is INSCRIBED to: "Professor Alonzo Church, Editor of The Journal of Symbolic Logic, [signed] Katsumi Nakamura, author of this book." SEE PHOTOS. Very Good condition. Clean and tight. Spine ends are mildly frayed. Pages are fresh, crisp, and unmarked. This book contains two papers. The first, VALUE AND THINKING, A PSYCHOLOGICAL STUDY (pp. 1-155) is in Japanese, except for an English title page. The second, ZUM LOGISCHEN FUNKTIONSBEGRIFFE DES WIENER KREISES (pp. 157-183) is in German. The binding is original brown cloth, stamped in Japanese characters on the spine and front cover. This is almost certainly the very copy that Church used for his review of ZUM LOGISCHEN that was published in the JOURNAL OF SYMBOLIC LOGIC (Vol. 6, No. 1, Mar., 1941, p. 36). It is one of several dozen books from Alonzo Church's personal library that we were lucky enough to purchase at auction in New Jersey. Several of the books contain his signature. Unfortunately, this copy does not. [But please check our inventory for others that do]. However, Professor Church's handwriting does appears on the front cover where he penned the author's name and a title [Zum logischen Funktionsbegriffe des Wiener Kreises], and again on the spine (author's name only). 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.]. Signed/Inscribed by the Author to Alonzo Church. First hardbound edition (assumed). Hardcover. Very Good condition/No Jacket. 8vo. (x), 185pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping. Seller Inventory # 007755
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Title: Zum logischen Funktionsbegriffe des Wiener ...
Publisher: Privately Printed?, Tokyo
Publication Date: 1939
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good condition
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: First hardbound edition (assumed).
