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History of Science and Technology Q&A (September 22, 2021)

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

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What Is Recursion?

Kurt girdle needed a way to represent sort of arbitrary operations and incode them in arithmetic. He used general recursor functions, which can have that so called me operator that goes an sterd of looks for future values. That was another place where a sort of something which turns out to be capable of universal computation was invented. Then in 19 35, alonzo church is working on lande calculus. So lamde calculus is a way of taking so people had the idea of a function f of x is x squared.

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