CHURCH'S THESIS


Meaning of CHURCH'S THESIS in English

also called Church's Theorem, a principle formulated by the 20th-century American logician Alonzo Church, stating that the recursive functions are the only functions that can be mechanically calculated. The theorem implies that the procedures of arithmetic cannot be used to decide the consistency of statements formulated in accordance with the laws of arithmetic.

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