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Jocelyn Quaintance coauthored mathematical expositions on computation with Jean Gallier. Their Introduction to the Theory of Computation: Computability, Complexity, and the Lambda Calculus by Jean Gallier and Jocelyn Quaintance (2020) develops links among formal computation, lambda calculus and arithmetic.^[ref]

The arithmetic chapter distinguishes the finite axioms of Robinson arithmetic from the mathematical induction schema used in Peano arithmetic. This matters computationally: a formal language can express arithmetic operations while different axiom systems prove different claims about them. The exposition connects symbolic rules with limits on what algorithms and formal proofs can establish.