Alonzo Church (1903–1995) was an American mathematician, logician, and computer scientist known for his significant contributions to mathematical logic, the foundations of mathematics, and the development of computer science. He is best known for formulating the Church-Turing thesis and for developing the lambda calculus, a formal system in mathematical logic and computer science that serves as a foundation for functional programming languages.

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