Lambda Calculus

Lambda calculus is a universal/Turing-complete language specification, that is considered to be mathematically elegant, due to its small size. Almost all text-based formal languages are defined using Lambda calculus.

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• Dana Scott
• Dana Scott on Lambda Calculus

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• John Shutt

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• Lambda Calculus
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• Lectures/"Functional distributed systems beyond request/response" by Melinda Lu

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• Paper/History of Lambda-calculus and Combinatory Logic
• Paper/Outline of a Mathematical Theory of Computation

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• Quote/Separation of Church and state

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• Thesis/Fexprs as the basis of Lisp function application or $vau : the ultimate abstraction

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• Video/"An Introduction to Combinator Compilers and Graph Reduction Machines" by David Graunke
• Video/"Functional distributed systems beyond request/response" by Melinda Lu
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• Video/Category Theory for the Working Hacker by Philip Wadler

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• Video/Dana S. Scott Lambda Calculus, Then and Now
• Video/Dana S. Scott: Seventy Years Using Fixed Points
• Video/Dana Scott & Jeremy Siek - Theory & Models of Lambda Calculus: Typed and Untyped (Part 1) - λC 2018
• Video/Dana Scott & Jeremy Siek - Theory & Models of Lambda Calculus: Typed and Untyped (Part 2) - λC 2018
• Video/Dana Scott & Jeremy Siek - Theory & Models of Lambda Calculus: Typed and Untyped (Part 3) - λC 2018
• Video/Dana Scott & Jeremy Siek - Theory & Models of Lambda Calculus: Typed and Untyped (Part 4) - λC 2018
• Video/Dana Scott & Jeremy Siek - Theory & Models of Lambda Calculus: Typed and Untyped (Part 5) - λC 2018
• Video/Dana Scott & Jeremy Siek - Theory & Models of Lambda Calculus: Typed and Untyped (Part 6) - λC 2018
• Video/Dana Scott - Theory and Models of Lambda Calculus Untyped and Typed - Part 1 of 5 - λC 2017
• Video/Dana Scott - Theory and Models of Lambda Calculus Untyped and Typed - Part 2 of 5 - λC 2017
• Video/Dana Scott - Theory and Models of Lambda Calculus Untyped and Typed - Part 3 of 5 - λC 2017
• Video/Dana Scott - Theory and Models of Lambda Calculus Untyped and Typed - Part 4 of 5 - λC 2017
• Video/Dana Scott - Theory and Models of Lambda Calculus Untyped and Typed - Part 5 of 5 - λC 2017
• Video/Daniel Beskin - Category Theory as a Tool for Thought - Lambda Days 2020

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• Video/Daniel Beskin- Category Theory as a Tool for Thought- λC 2019
• Video/Foundations of Programming Languages: Typed and Untyped Lambda-Calculus - Paul Downen - OPLSS 2018
• Video/Hey Underscore, You're Doing It Wrong!
• Video/Lambda Calculus - Computerphile
• Video/Lambda Calculus - Fundamentals of Lambda Calculus & Functional Programming in JavaScript
• Video/Prof. Dana Scott - Geometry Without Points
• Video/Programming Loops vs Recursion - Computerphile
• Video/Some analogies between arithmetic and topology - Tony Feng
• Video/Steven Syrek - Category Theory for People who Can't be Bothered to Learn It (Part 1) - λC 2018
• Video/Steven Syrek - Category Theory for People who Can't be Bothered to Learn It (Part 2) - λC 2018
• Video/Stochastic Lambda-Calculus
• Video/Unleashing Algebraic Metaprogramming in Julia with Metatheory.jl JuliaCon2021
• Video/Why Elixir Matters: A Genealogy of Functional Programming