15-453 Formal Languages, Automata, and Computation
Lecture 25: The Lambda-Calculus

We begin with the proof that the tiling problem from lecture 24 is undecidable. Then we examine Church's lambda-calculus, another universal model of computation (the "Church" part in the Church-Turing Thesis).

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