Series 1: Writings, 1924-1995
This series consists of Church's published and unpublished papers, lectures, and books, including reprints, manuscript drafts, research notes, and related correspondence. The first half of this series (Boxes 1-8) contains published papers, lectures, and a few reviews, all of which are arranged primarily by publication year, spanning 1924 to 1993. One exception is Church's 1995 published paper, which is placed in 1990, the year it was presented in a conference. In addition, a folder of miscellaneous, loose, and unidentified manuscript pages from Church's writings is at the end of Box 8. The second half of the series (Boxes 9-15) contains material pertaining to collected works of Church projects (unpublished as of this writing), early versions of Church's seminal textbook, Introduction to Mathematical Logic, the first edition of which was published by the Princeton University Press in 1956 (Church's many stenographer's notebooks filled with notes for the book are also included here), as well as some of Church's lectures, abstracts, and unpublished manuscripts. Church's mathematics and philosophy articles for the Encyclopaedia Britannica, along with his related editorial work and correspondence, are located in the Subject Files series.
This series is arranged into nine subseries: Published Papers, Published Papers, Published Papers, Published Papers, Published Papers, Published Papers, Published Papers, Published Papers, Collected Works Projects and Bibliographies, and Lectures Abstracts, Unpublished Papers, etc.
"A Generalization of Laplace's Transformation": AMs, 45 pp. (incomplete), dates not examined
"Russell's Theory of Identity of Propositions": AMs, 23 pp. and photocopy, dates not examined
"A Revised Formulation of the Logic of Sense and Denotation": Footnotes, dates not examined
"Propositions and Sentences", 1956
"Logic and Analysis", 1958
"A Revised Formulation of the Logic of Sense and Denotation. Alternative (1).", 1987 January 3
22 Reviews by Church, 1939-1975
Introduction to Mathematical Logic: Notes in stenographer's notebooks #3-4, dates not examined
Introduction to Mathematical Logic: Notes in stenographer's notebooks #5-6, dates not examined
Introduction to Mathematical Logic: Notes in stenographer's notebooks #7 (2), dates not examined
Introduction to Mathematical Logic: Notes in stenographer's notebooks #8-10, dates not examined
Introduction to Mathematical Logic: Notes in stenographer's notebooks #11-12, dates not examined
Notes for Introduction to Mathematical Logic, Vol. I, chapter 47, p. 273, dates not examined
Introduction to Mathematical Logic, Volume I: Corrections to the second 1958 printing, 1958
Introduction to Mathematical Logic: Partial photocopy of Russian translation of book (Moscow ), 1960
Introduction to Mathematical Logic, Chapter VII: TMs with autograph corrections, dates not examined
Introduction to Mathematical Logic, Chapter VII: TMs with autograph corrections, dates not examined
Introduction to Mathematical Logic, Chapter VII: TMs with autograph corrections, dates not examined
"Material distributed to the audience, 1983 March 26", photocopy, 5 pp.; AMs, 2 pp., 1983 March 26
"A Sketch of An Extensional-Semantical Meta-Language A2s of A2," undated AMs, 3 pp., undated
"Grelling's Antimony," undated AMs, 5 pp., photocopy and mimeographs, with autograph notes, undated
Series 2: Correspondence, 1934-1998
This series consists of Church's extensive correspondence (dating from 1928 to 1995) that relates to all aspects of Church's academic life and career, including his association with the Association of Symbolic Logic (ASL) from its earliest days (1935 and onwards) and the publication of the Journal of Symbolic Logic (JSL), of which he served as editor and editor of reviews from 1936 until 1979. While the academic correspondence is primarily organized alphabetically by correspondent's or organization's names, the JSL and ASL correspondence sub-series reflects changes in office filing systems over the years. Whenever possible, the original filing systems were preserved in the organization of this series. It is therefore possible to find the letters of any one prominent scholar under several categories; for example, W. V. Quine's letters can be found organized by year in the JSL/ASL sub-series between 1936 and 1979, including in one folder labeled "JSL Correspondence 1957-59 L-Z," and by name in both the academic correspondence and the JSL office correspondence files. There is a limited amount of non-academic-related correspondence (family, friends, financial, etc.) at the end of the series.
This series is arranged into five subseries: Academic Correspondence, Journal of Symbolic Logic Correspondence, Association for Symbolic Logic Correspondence, Journal of Symbolic Logic Office Files, Miscellaneous Correspondence by Subject.
A General, dates not examined
Abian, Alexander, dates not examined
Addison, John, dates not examined
Ansejo, F. G., dates not examined
Arbab, Bijan, dates not examined
Ba-Bl General, dates not examined
Bo-Bu General, dates not examined
Barendregt, Henk, dates not examined
Barzin, Marcel, dates not examined
Baylis, C. A., dates not examined
Beard, Robert W., dates not examined
Bernays, Paul, 1934-1975
Beth, E. W., dates not examined
Bex, Joseph, dates not examined
Boone, W. W., dates not examined
Borgers, A., dates not examined
Bowden, Leon, dates not examined
British Academy, dates not examined
Burks, Arthur W., dates not examined
Bynum, Terry, dates not examined
C General, dates not examined
Carnap, Rudolf, 1940-1954
Cherry, T. M., dates not examined
Cohen, A., dates not examined
Cohen, Robert S., dates not examined
Copi, Irving M., dates not examined
Craig, William, dates not examined
Curry, H. B., dates not examined
Cusmariu, Arnold, dates not examined
D General, dates not examined
Davis, Martin, dates not examined
Dickson, Harald, dates not examined
Dockx, S. I., dates not examined
Dodds, Harold W., dates not examined
E General, dates not examined
Elgot, C. C., dates not examined
F General, dates not examined
Feigl, Herbert, dates not examined
Ferrari, Gerard, dates not examined
Feys, R., dates not examined
Fine, Henry B., dates not examined
Fitch, Frederic B, 1937-1978
Fraenkel, A., dates not examined
Frechet, Maurice, dates not examined
G General, dates not examined
Gandy, R. O., dates not examined
Gilman, R. L., dates not examined
Gödel, Kurt, dates not examined
Gonseth, F., dates not examined
Goodman, Nelson, dates not examined
Goodstein, R. L., dates not examined
Gotshalk, D. W., dates not examined
H General, dates not examined
Halmos, Paul R., dates not examined
Henkin, Leon, dates not examined
Heyting, A., dates not examined
I General, dates not examined
Iseka, Kiyosi, dates not examined
Isles, David, dates not examined
Itoh, Makoto, dates not examined
J General, dates not examined
K General, dates not examined
Kalish, Donald, dates not examined
Kaplan, David, dates not examined
Kates, Robert, dates not examined
Kemeny, John, dates not examined
Kleene, S. C., dates not examined
Kline, J. R., dates not examined
Kondô, Motokiti, dates not examined
Koopman, B. O., dates not examined
Korselt, A., dates not examined
Kraft, Julius, dates not examined
Kreisel, Georg, dates not examined
L General, dates not examined
Landau, E., dates not examined
Langford, C. H., dates not examined
Leblanc, Hugues, dates not examined
Lejewski, C., dates not examined
Lewis, C. I., dates not examined
Linsky, Leonard, dates not examined
Lorenzen, Paul, dates not examined
Lüscher, Dodera, dates not examined
M General, dates not examined
Madarász, Anna, dates not examined
Makinson, David, dates not examined
Malcev, A. I., dates not examined
Manor, Ruth, dates not examined
Martin, R. M., dates not examined
Mates, Benson, dates not examined
Müller, Gert, dates not examined
Myhill, John, dates not examined
N General, dates not examined
Nagel, Ernest, dates not examined
Nash, John, Jr., dates not examined
Narveson, Anne, dates not examined
O General, dates not examined
P General, dates not examined
De Paola, Angela, dates not examined
Parsons, Charles, dates not examined
Parsons, Terence, dates not examined
Péter, Rózsa, dates not examined
Pizá, Pedro A., dates not examined
Post, E. L, 1936-1954
Prior, A. N., dates not examined
Putnam, Hilary, dates not examined
Q General, dates not examined
Quine, W. V, 1935-1978
R General, dates not examined
Rawls, John, dates not examined
Riska, Augustus, dates not examined
Rota, Gian-Carlo, dates not examined
Rudner, Richard, dates not examined
Runes, Dagobert D. (re. Dictionary of Philosophy and Philosophic Abstracts), dates not examined
Sa-Si General, dates not examined
Sk-Sz General, dates not examined
Salié, H., dates not examined
Salmon, Nathan, dates not examined
Scholz, Erna, dates not examined
Scholz, Heinrich, dates not examined
Sedey, Daniel, dates not examined
Shirshov, A. I., dates not examined
Shukla, Anian, dates not examined
T General, dates not examined
Talmage, R. S., dates not examined
Tarski, Alfred, dates not examined
Thiel, J. C., dates not examined
Truesdell, C. A., dates not examined
Turing, Alan, dates not examined
Turing, E. Sarah, dates not examined
U General, dates not examined
Ushenko, A., dates not examined
V General, dates not examined
van Heerden, J., dates not examined
Vaught, R. L., dates not examined
Veblen, Oswald, dates not examined
von Mises, Hilda, dates not examined
W General, dates not examined
Wang, Hao, dates not examined
Weiss, Paul, dates not examined
Wells, G. S., dates not examined
Wells, Rulon S., dates not examined
Wette, Edward, dates not examined
Weyl, Hermann, dates not examined
White, F. P., dates not examined
Whyburn, W. M., dates not examined
Wikler, Daniel, dates not examined
X-Z General, dates not examined
Zelëny, Michael, dates not examined
Zorn, Max A., dates not examined
Zubieta, Gonzalo, dates not examined
Received/Outgoing, 1935
Received, 1936
Received 1936 Baylis, C. A., 1936
Received 1936 Curry, H. B., 1936
Received 1936 Ducasse, C. J., 1936
Received 1936 Langford, C. H., 1936
Outgoing, 1936
Received, 1937
Outgoing, 1937
Received, 1938
Outgoing, 1938
Received, 1939
Outgoing, 1939
Received, 1940
Outgoing, 1940
Received, 1941
Outgoing, 1941
Received, 1942
Outgoing, 1942
Received, 1943
Outgoing, 1943
Received, 1944
Outgoing, 1944
1945, 1945
Correspondence, 1946
Correspondence, 1947
Correspondence, 1948
Correspondence, 1949
Correspondence, 1950
Correspondence, 1951
Correspondence, 1952
Correspondence, 1953
Correspondence, 1954
Correspondence, 1955
Correspondence, 1956
A General, 1960-1970
Allen, Layman, 1960-1967
Anderson, Alan Ross, 1960-1973
Andrews, Peter, 1965-1988
Angelelli, I. A, 1965-1970
Åqvist, Lennart, 1968-1969
Asenjo, F. G, 1968-1990
B General, 1961-1969
Bacon, John, 1964-1967
Bar-Hillel, Yehoshua, 1960-1973
Barendregt, H. P, 1972-1976
Barlaz, Joshua, 1960-1961
Barwise, Jon, 1969-1978
Bauer-Mengelberg, Stefan, 1962-1970
Bayart, A, 1961-1968
Baylis, Charles A, 1963-1971
Bealer, George, 1974-1994
Bečvář, Jiří, 1962-1977
Belnap, Nuel D., Jr, 1961-1971
Bennett, J. F, 1964-1976
Berg, Jan, 1968
Bernays, Paul, 1963-1979
Blikle, Andrzej, 1963-1972
Boh, Ivan, 1968-1976
Bohnert, H, 1967-1974
Boone, William, 1961-1982
Borgers, Alfons, 1960-1970
Borgers, Alfons, 1971-1977
Bull, R. A, 1967-1969
Butler, Ronald, 1960-1973
C General, 1961-1973
Castañeda, Hector-Neri, 1961-1964
Collins, D. J, 1967-1968
Cooper, D. C, 1965-1967
Corcoran, John, 1975-1978
Craig, William, 1964-1968, 1980-1981
Curry, Haskell B, 1962-1982
D General, 1963-1977
Davis, Martin, 1967-1973
Dawson, Edward E, 1965-1972
Dempsey, Deborah, 1960-1961
Dickson, Harald, 1967-1970
Dreben, Burton, 1960-1969
Duda, William L, 1972-1974
Dumitriu, Anton, 1970-1972
Dyson, Verena H, 1964-1968
E General, 1963-1971
Elgot, Calvin C, 1962-1971
Enderton, Herbert B, 1968-1997
F General, 1958-1984
Feferman, Solomon, 1967-1969
Fels, Eberhard M, 1962-1971
Ferebee, Ann, 1972-1979
Fitch, Frederic B, 1961-1975
F⊘llesdal, Dagfinn, 1966-1980
Fraisse, Roland, 1957-1973
Frayne, Thomas E, 1961-1970
Freudenthal, Hans, 1966-1974
Fuhrken, Gebhard, 1965-1968
G General, 1963-1974
Gale, Richard, 1968-1975
Gandy, R. O, 1966
Gershuni, B, 1967-1969
Germansky, B, 1960-1966
H General, 1965-1973
Hailperin, Theodore, 1960-1967
Halpern, J. D, 1966
Harrop, Ronald, 1961-1968
Hasenjaeger, G, 1960-1977
Hempel, Carl G, 1962-1967
Henkin, Leon, 1960-1971
Iséki, Kiyoshi, 1968-1974
Itoh, Makoto, 1960
J General, 1960-1969
K General, 1965-1971
Kalish, Donald, 1963-1994
Kambartel, Friedrich, 1968-1970
Kaplan, David, 1963-1973
Karp, Carol, 1964-1968
Kleene, S. C, 1958-1983
Kline, George, 1957-1964
Kneebone, G. T, 1978
Kokoszynska-Lutman, Maria, 1963-1975
Kreider, Donald L, 1964-1992
Kreisel, Georg, 1960-1973
L General, 1964-1979
Ladrière, Jean, 1963-1971
Lascar, Daniel, 1980-1998
Lazerowitz, Alice A, 1960-1971
Leaf, Mrs, 1974-1975
Leblanc, Hughes, 1960-1990
Lejewski, Czestaw, 1965-1980
Lercher, Bruce, 1964-1971
Levy, Azriel, 1960-1968
Luckham, David, 1966-1971
Luschei, Eugene, 1960-1974
Martin, R. M, 1963-1967
Massey, Gerald J, 1964-1973
Mates, Benson, 1964-1969
Mayoh, B.H., 1966-1969
McNaughton, Robert, 1962-1976
Mennicke, Jens L, 1966-1967
Mihailescu, Eugen, 1965-1970
Miller, David, 1969-1971
Monk, Donald, 1965-1975
Montague, Richard, 1960-1971
Moore, Edward F, 1961-1963
Mostowski, Andrzej, 1957-1973
Mott, Thomas, 1960-1970
Müller, Gert H, 1962-1973
Myhill, John, 1967-1980
N General, 1960-1971
O General, 1957-1994
P General, 1963-1971
Parsons, Charles D, 1964-1974
Péter, Rózsa, 1965-1970
Pierce, R.S., 1965-1967
Platek, Richard, 1968-1972
Pogorzelski, Witold A, 1963-1968
Pour-El, Marian Boykan, 1964-1971
Prawitz, Dag, 1969-1975
Prior, Arthur N, 1952-1969
Putnam, Hilary, 1957-1979
Quine, W.V., 1960-1997
R General, 1956-1979
Rabin, Michael, 1960-1977
Rand, Rose, 1960-1967
Reichbach, Juliusz, 1960-1969
Robinson, Abraham, 1960-1969
Robinson, Julia, 1960-1985
Robinson, T. Thacher, 1961-1966
Rosser, J. Barkley, 1960-1983
Sa-Sh General, 1965-1974
Si-Sz General, 1960-1978
Sánchez-Mazas, Miguel, 1970-1972
Schock, Rolf, 1963-1982
Scott, Dana, 1963-1967
Segerberger, Krister, 1967-1976
Shamir, Eliahu, 1968-1970
Shepherdson, J. C, 1960-1968
Shoenfield, Joseph R, 1968-1976
Simpson, Thomas M, 1967-1973
Slupecki, Jerzy, 1968-1971
Staal, Frits, 1966-1967
Stahl, Gerold, 1964-1974
Stanley, Robert, 1968-1973
Stegmüller, Wolfgang, 1960-1970
Ta-Th General, 1960-1971
Ti-Tz General, 1960-1988
Tarski, Alfred, 1961-1971
Turing, E. Sara, 1960-1971
Turquette, Atwell R, 1960-1967
Umezawa, T, 1968
V General, 1964-1986
van Heinjenoort, John, 1952-1978
Vaught, R. L, 1965-1968
Vuckovic, V, 1963-1968
W General, 1961-1975
Wells, B. F., III, 1964-1966
X-Z General, 1969-1983
Yasugi, Mariko, 1966-1968
Yates, C. E. M, 1965-1971
Yesenin-Volpin, A. S, 1973-1975
Yourgrau, Wolfgang, 1960-1969
JSL Reviews, Papers and Correspondence 1965 A. Church, R. Péter, F. Schwenkel, and V. Vuckovic, 1965
Correspondence relating to 1990 University of Buffalo (NY) Symposium in Honor of Alonzo Church, 1990
Correspondence, including travel arrangements: ASL, Leeds 1962; Colloquium in Tihany, Hungary, 1962
Letters of Recommendation & Evaluation (Advisory Correspondence): multiple names, dates not examined
This series consists of Church's notes beginning with an undergraduate course at Princeton University in 1924 to his extensive research notes (many of which were removed from their original 3-ring binder notebooks), notes compiled by students from Church's course lectures at Princeton University and UCLA, and miscellaneous, loose notes, both dated and undated, through the years. The organization of this series follows and retains, wherever possible, Church's own subject filing system, including his original folder title and order. *Also includes loose notes removed from Church's books in his personal library.
This series is arranged into seven subseries: Princeton University Courses, Miscellaneous Notebooks, Notebooks, Differential Equations, Set Theory, UCLA Courses, and UCLA Courses and Miscellaneous Dated Notes.
Notebook, 1965 December-1966 August
Notebook, 1967 February
Notebook, 1966 April-1967 February
Notebook: Abel's equation; Attempted Transformations to Riccati equations, dates not examined
Differential equations notebook: Developments from 1.9; Riccati Analogues, dates not examined
Notebook: First order equations, Second and Third order linear equations, etc., dates not examined
Notebook, 1975 July-1977 December
Notebook, 1976 December-1978 January
Notebook, 1977 January-December
Little notebook, 1977 May
Notebook, 1978 July-1979 January
Notebook, 1979 June-September
Notebook, 1981 March-December
UCLA Philosophy 127A: Lecture notes and original manuscript on "Semantics of language L", undated
UCLA Philosophy 127B, 1973 Spring Philosophy of Language Notes of Kaplan's lectures, 1973 Spring
Series 4: Subject Files, 1924-1990
This series consists of Church's academic and administrative files at Princeton University and UCLA, organizations such as the National Academy of Sciences (to which he was elected in 1978) and National Science Foundation, as well as his editorial and subject files pertaining to his consulting work with various encyclopedia and dictionaries, academic and research topics, etc. A small amount of personal, family-related, and financial material is filed at the end of this series.
This series is arranged into nine subseries: Academic Institutions: Priceton University, Academic Institutions: Princeton University (cont.) and UCLA, Academic Topics from Church's Files, Encyclopaedia Britannica, etc., Journal of Symbolic Logic, Miscellaneous Printed Materials, National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council, National Science Foundation, National Science Foundation, Publications, and Publications (cont.) and Personal.
Princeton University Exercises in undergraduate logic (Mathematics 320, 1952 February 20-March 5
Excluded Middle, dates not examined
Intuitionism, Logicism, Proof Theory (Philosophy 128A, 128B course materials), dates not examined
Knots, undated
Miminal Logic, dates not examined
Non-Normal Truth Tables (includes 1958 letter by Antonio Monteiro); [Paco] Lagerstrom notes, 1958
Quine Set Theory, dates not examined
Russell [, Bertrand]: Proposed Revisions of P.M. [ Principia Mathematica], dates not examined
Transfinite Type Theory, undated
Journal of Symbolic Logic: Indexes (vol. 45 and queries about subject index), dates not examined
Journal of Symbolic Logic: Reviews by Alonzo Church (drafts, proofs, etc.), dates not examined
Journal of Symbolic Logic: Galley proof corrections for Volume 41 Number 4, dates not examined
Printer Samples, dates not examined
Misc. printed materials, undated
Misc. printed materials, undated
National Academy of Sciences: Correspondence and proposals for nomination, dates not examined
National Science Foundation (NSF) grants: General information and correspondence, dates not examined
International Congress for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Stanford, CA, 1960
This series consists of reprints of papers filed alphabetically by the author's name. They include doctoral dissertations by Church's students, manuscript drafts, and articles photocopied from journals and books, some of which were compiled by, or sent to, Church for his own research and/or for potential review in the Journal of Symbolic Logic. Original cover letters were kept with the papers whenever possible, as well as correspondence and comments by Church.
Arranged alphabetically by author.
Abian, Smbat, dates not examined
Adams, Joe K., dates not examined
Adams, Robert, dates not examined
Allen, Layman E., dates not examined
Almog, J., dates not examined
Artin, Emil, dates not examined
Aumann, Georg, dates not examined
Bahm, Archie J., dates not examined
Barbosa, Jorge, dates not examined
Bausch, A. F., dates not examined
Bealer, George, dates not examined
Berke, Peter, dates not examined
Bernays, Paul, dates not examined
Bochenski, J. M., dates not examined
Boone, William, dates not examined
Burgatti, Pietro, dates not examined
Burge, Tyler, dates not examined
Burge, Tyler, dates not examined
Carnap, Rudolf, dates not examined
Carr, John W., dates not examined
Chaitin, Gregory, dates not examined
Chaitin, Gregory, dates not examined
Chauvin, Andre, dates not examined
Cohen, Paul J., dates not examined
Corcoran, John, dates not examined
Craig, William, dates not examined
Curry, H. B., dates not examined
Cusmariu, Arnold, dates not examined
Dao, Paolo, dates not examined
Davidson, Donald, dates not examined
Davis, Martin, dates not examined
De Bruijn, N. G., dates not examined
DeSua, Frank, dates not examined
Deutsch, Harry, dates not examined
Dirac, P. A. M., dates not examined
Elgot, Calvin, dates not examined
Ellis, Brian, dates not examined
Enderton, H. B., dates not examined
Etchemendy, John, dates not examined
Fisch, Max, dates not examined
Fitch, Frederic, dates not examined
Fontana, Walter, dates not examined
Friedman, Harvey, dates not examined
Friedman, Joel, dates not examined
Gale, Richard M., dates not examined
Gandy, R. O., dates not examined
Gilmore, Paul C., dates not examined
Goodstein, R. L., dates not examined
Grana, Nicola, dates not examined
Grandy, Richard, dates not examined
Granell, Manuel, dates not examined
Griffin, Mabel, dates not examined
Grzegorczyk, A., dates not examined
Guard, James, dates not examined
Guard, James, dates not examined
Halmos, Paul R., dates not examined
Hamming, R. W., dates not examined
Hannauer, George, dates not examined
Hardin, Garrett, dates not examined
Hardy, G. H., dates not examined
Hartman, Philip, dates not examined
Hatcher, William, dates not examined
Hawkins, Frances, dates not examined
Hazen, A., dates not examined
Healey, Richard, dates not examined
Helmer, Olaf, dates not examined
Henkin, Leon, dates not examined
Hermes, Hans, dates not examined
Herzog, Fritz, dates not examined
Heyting, A., dates not examined
Hilbert, David, dates not examined
Hille, Einar, dates not examined
Hintikka, Jaakko, dates not examined
Hiz, H., dates not examined
Hoffman, Banesh, dates not examined
Horn, Alfred, dates not examined
Hurewicz, W., dates not examined
Itoh, Makoto, dates not examined
Jackson, Howard, dates not examined
Jacobson, N., dates not examined
Jaffin, George, dates not examined
Jenks, Frederick, dates not examined
Jonsson, Bjarni, dates not examined
Kagno, I. N., dates not examined
Kanger, Stig, dates not examined
Kaplan, David, dates not examined
Kaplan, David, dates not examined
Katz, Robert, dates not examined
Kavka, Gregory, dates not examined
Kemeny, John, dates not examined
Kneser, Hellmuth, dates not examined
Kondo, M., dates not examined
Korselt, A., dates not examined
Krasner, Marc, dates not examined
Kreisel, Georg, dates not examined
Kuipers, John W., dates not examined
Künneth, H., dates not examined
Kurepa, Georges, dates not examined
Kushner, Boris, dates not examined
Lambek, J., dates not examined
Larkin, dates not examined
Lefschetz, S., dates not examined
Levi-Civita, T., dates not examined
Levine, J., dates not examined
Levy, Azriel, dates not examined
Lins, Mario, dates not examined
Linsky, Leonard, dates not examined
Löb, M. H., dates not examined
Malitz, Richard, dates not examined
Malitz, Richard, dates not examined
Mar, Gary, dates not examined
Markov, A. A., dates not examined
Maron, M. E., dates not examined
Martin, Richard, dates not examined
Mates, Benson, dates not examined
McCall, Storrs, dates not examined
Mehlberg, Henryk, dates not examined
Menger, Karl, dates not examined
Meredith, David, dates not examined
Mitani, Suketaka, dates not examined
Moisil, Gr. C., dates not examined
Moody, Ernest A., dates not examined
Muller, David, dates not examined
Mullin, Albert, dates not examined
Myhill, John, dates not examined
Nelson, R. J., dates not examined
Newman, M. H. A., dates not examined
Nomoto, Kazuyuki, dates not examined
Paradies, F., dates not examined
Parsons, Charles, dates not examined
Parsons, Terence, dates not examined
Porte, M. J., dates not examined
Rabin, Michael, dates not examined
Randell, B., dates not examined
Ree, Rimhak, dates not examined
Regan, Kenneth, dates not examined
Richter, Wayne, dates not examined
Riesz, Frigyes, dates not examined
Ritchie, Robert, dates not examined
Robertson, H. P., dates not examined
Roque, Sabrina, dates not examined
Roth, J. P., dates not examined
Routley, R., dates not examined
Salmon, Nathan, dates not examined
Schock, Rolf, dates not examined
Scholz, Heinrich, dates not examined
Schütte, K., dates not examined
Scott, Dana, dates not examined
Segal, Irving, dates not examined
Seldin, Jonathan, dates not examined
Sellars, Wilfrid, dates not examined
Seymour, Michel, dates not examined
Shabunin, L. V., dates not examined
Shaffer, Jerome, dates not examined
Shankar, N., dates not examined
Sharlow, Mark, dates not examined
Sheridan, Flash, dates not examined
Sierpinski, W., dates not examined
Sklar, Lawrence, dates not examined
Sklar, Lawrence, dates not examined
Sklar, Lawrence, dates not examined
Sklar, Lawrence, dates not examined
Skolem, Th., dates not examined
Smith, Richard, dates not examined
Sobel, dates not examined
Stenius, Erik, dates not examined
Strauss, Paul, dates not examined
Suppes, Patrick, dates not examined
Suszko, Roman, dates not examined
Swain, Robert L., dates not examined
Swiggart, Peter, dates not examined
Tallet, J. A., dates not examined
Tarski, Alfred, dates not examined
Thomason, R. H., dates not examined
Thorpe, Dale A., dates not examined
Trew, A., dates not examined
Tucker, John, dates not examined
Tucker, John, dates not examined
Tukey, J. W., dates not examined
Van Dalen, Dirk, dates not examined
Vandiver, H. S., dates not examined
Vandiver, H.S., dates not examined
Vietoris, L., dates not examined
Vision, Gerald, dates not examined
Vopenka, Petr, dates not examined
Vranceanu, G., dates not examined
Wallace, A. D., dates not examined
Walsh, J. L., dates not examined
Wang, Hao, dates not examined
Watanabe, Satosi, dates not examined
Webb, Judson, dates not examined
Wette, Eduard, dates not examined
White, Morton, dates not examined
Wigner, Eugene, dates not examined
Wilson, N. L., dates not examined
Yourgrau, Palle, dates not examined
Zellweger, Shea, undated
- Scope and Contents
Consists of the writings, correspondence, notes, and subject files of Alonzo Church. (For a more detailed description of these, see the Series Descriptions below.) Correspondents include Paul Bernays, Rudolf Carnap, Frederic B. Fitch, S. C. Kleene, E. L. Post, W. V. Quine, J. Barkley Rosser, Alfred Tarski, and Alan Turing, in addition to the many contributors to the Journal of Symbolic Logic during the years in which Church was editor.
The following standard abbreviations, or their variations, are used to identify materials in this collection: ALS = autograph letter signed, TLS = typed letter signed, ACS = autograph card signed, TCS = typed card signed, ANS = autograph note signed, TNS = typed note signed, AMsS = autograph manuscript signed, and TMsS = typed manuscript signed.
- Collection Creator Biography:
Church
Alonzo Church was born on June 14, 1903, in Washington, D.C., to Samuel Robbins Church, a justice of the Municipal Court of the District of Columbia, and Mildred Hannah Church (née Parker). His great-grandfather, also named Alonzo Church, was professor of mathematics and, later, president of the college in Athens, Georgia, from 1829 to 1859. Church received his A.B. degree (1924) and Ph.D. degree (1927) from Princeton University under the guidance of Oswald Veblen. Church's doctoral dissertation was published in the January 1927 issue of Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, and titled "Alternatives to Zermelo's Assumption." He went on to study at Harvard University for a year (1927-28) on a National Research Fellowship, followed by a year abroad (1928-29) on an International Research Fellowship at the Universities of Göttingen and Amsterdam (where he visited with L. E. J. Brouwer). Church was appointed Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Princeton in 1929, promoted to Associate Professor in 1939, received tenure in 1947; from 1961 to 1967 he was Professor of Mathematics and Philosophy.
When the Association for Symbolic Logic was founded in 1935, Church became one of its first officers and the first co-editor (with C. H. Langford) of the Journal of Symbolic Logic. The first issue of the journal was published in March 1936, and Church served as editor of reviews for its first 44 volumes (1936-79). As a result of the high standards he set for the reviews section, Church was instrumental in building respect for the field of symbolic logic among mathematicians and philosophers.
During the 1930s, Church made Princeton a leading center of research in mathematical logic, with a focus on questions of the completeness and decidability of logical systems. In 1936 he demonstrated the undecidability of first-order logic ("Church's Theorem"), thus extending the famous result of Kurt Gödel, who was visiting the Institute for Advanced Study at the time. Together with his early students, J. Barkley Rosser, Steven C. Kleene, and Alan M. Turing, Church established the equivalence of the lambda calculus, recursive function theory, and Turing machines as formalizations of the notion of "effective calculability," a result that has come to be known as the "Church-Turing Thesis." In the 1950s and 1960s another generation of Church's students, including Michael Rabin, Hartley Rodgers, and Dana Scott, extended this research to automata, formal languages, and formal semantics, thus shaping the new field of theoretical computer science. Through this work—the lambda calculus—one of Church's earliest creations, gained new life as the basis for functional programming languages and for denotational semantics.
In 1967, Church moved his Journal of Symbolic Logic office's operations from Princeton to Los Angeles and continued his teaching career as Professor of Philosophy and Mathematics at UCLA until his retirement in 1990.
Church's writings range from papers published in numerous academic journals and books, to his 1941 monograph The Calculi of Lambda-Conversion and 1956 textbook An Introduction to Mathematical Logic, and to articles in the Encyclopedia Britannica for which he served as consulting editor on topics of mathematics and philosophy.
Church was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1978 and was also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and British Academy. He received honorary degrees from Case Western Reserve University (1969), Princeton University (1985) and the State University of New York at Buffalo (1990). The following statement was read aloud during the Princeton ceremony:
Over some 40 years of research and teaching, he made Princeton an international center of symbolic logic. In work contributing to what has been termed 'a fundamental discovery of the mathematicizing power of Homo Sapiens,' he defined the central question concerning the boundaries of formal reasoning. As longstanding editor and reviewer for his discipline's journal, he gave critical guidance to its quest for the foundations of mathematics and chronicled its history. Through his students, he set a path that has led from the abstract realm of mathematical logic to the concrete domains of computer science and to new vistas of mathematical power.
Church was married to Mary Julia Kuczinski from 1925 until her death in 1976, and they had three children—Alonzo Church, Jr. (Princeton Class of 1951), Mary Ann Addison, and Mildred Warner Dandridge. Several other of Church's relatives also attended Princeton University, including Church's grandsons John West Addison III (Class of 1984) and Alonzo Addison (Class of 1987), and three of Church's uncles. The uncle who was also named Alonzo Church was a member of the Class of 1892; James Robb Church belonged to the Class of 1888; and W. W. "Will" Church was in the Class of 1897. Following his retirement from UCLA, Alonzo Church moved to Hudson, Ohio, where his son resided. Church died on August 11, 1995, and was buried in the family plot in the Princeton Cemetery.
- Acquisition:
The family of Alonzo Church (his son, Alonzo Church, Jr., and his two daughters, Mary Ann Addison and Mildred Dandridge) donated his papers to the Princeton University Library in April 2003 .
- Appraisal
No appraisal information is available.
- Processing Information
This collection was processed by Sylvia Yu and Laura Hildago, Princeton Class of 2006 in 2004. Finding aid written by Sylvia Yu and Laura Hildago, Princeton Class of 2006 in 2004.
- Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research use.
- Conditions Governing Use
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- Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
For preservation reasons, original analog and digital media may not be read or played back in the reading room. Users may visually inspect physical media but may not remove it from its enclosure. All analog audiovisual media must be digitized to preservation-quality standards prior to use. Audiovisual digitization requests are processed by an approved third-party vendor. Please note, the transfer time required can be as little as several weeks to as long as several months and there may be financial costs associated with the process. Requests should be directed through the Ask Us Form.
- Credit this material:
Alonzo Church Papers; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/fx719m49m
- Location:
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Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (scamss): Box 1-85
- Subject Terms:
- Lambda calculus.
Logic, Symbolic and mathematical.
Mathematicians -- United States -- 20th century -- Correspondence
Mathematics -- Philosophy.
Mathematics -- Research -- California -- Los Angeles. -- 20th century
Mathematics -- Research -- New Jersey -- Princeton. -- 20th century
Mathematics -- Study and teaching -- California -- Los Angeles. -- 20th century
Mathematics -- Study and teaching -- New Jersey -- Princeton. -- 20th century
Recursive functions. - Genre Terms:
- Correspondence
Files.
Publications. - Names:
- Association for symbolic logic