Alonzo Church
About
Alonzo Church was a renowned American mathematician, logician, philosopher, professor and editor, 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. He also worked on philosophy of language. Alongside his student Alan Turing, Church is considered one of the founders of computer science.