Complete Definition of "lambda calculus"

English

Etymology
Coined by Alonzo Church after the use of the Greek letter lambda in the calculus. rft

Noun
lambda calculus

  1. comptheory Any of a family of functionally complete algebraic systems in which lambda expressions are evaluated according to a fixed set of rules to produce values, which may themselves be lambda expressions.

Related terms
calculus
lambda
lambda expression

Translations
trans-top|algebraic system
Croatian: t-|hr|lambda ra�un|m
trans-mid
trans-bottom

See also
combinator
functionally complete
Turing machine

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