알론조 처치

소개

알론조 처치(영어: Alonzo Church, 1903년 6월 14일 - 1995년 8월 11일)는 미국의 컴퓨터 과학자, 수학자, 논리학자, 철학자이다. 컴퓨터 과학의 이론적 기초를 세운 사람 중의 한 명이다.

Alonzo Church was an American computer scientist, mathematician, logician, and philosopher who made major contributions to mathematical logic and the foundations of theoretical computer science. He is best known for the lambda calculus, the Church–Turing thesis, proving the unsolvability of the Entscheidungsproblem, the Frege–Church ontology, and the Church–Rosser theorem. Alongside his doctoral student Alan Turing, Church is considered one of the founders of computer science.