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Jim Kata
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I have been kind of trying to teach myself some ideas from CS. What does Turing completeness mean exactly? For example, Lambda Calculus is Turing complete. What does that mean and how do you prove that?
Turing completeness refers to the ability of a computing system or language to perform any computable function. In other words, it can solve any problem that is theoretically solvable by a computer.
Lambda Calculus is a formal system developed by mathematician Alonzo Church in the 1930s as a way to study and formalize the concept of computation. It is based on the use of functions to represent and manipulate data.
Lambda Calculus is a theoretical model of computation that is equivalent in power to a Turing machine, meaning it is capable of solving any computable problem. This makes Lambda Calculus a Turing complete language.
The basic components of Lambda Calculus include variables, functions, and applications. Variables represent inputs, functions represent operations, and applications combine variables and functions to create new functions.
While Lambda Calculus is primarily a theoretical concept, it has been used in the development of programming languages and in the study of functional programming. It has also been used in computer science research to explore the limits of computation and in the development of proof assistants.