Moses Schonfinkel
Moses Schonfinkel · Science & Medicine
Founder of combinatory logic
1889, Ekaterinoslav, Russian Empire (now Dnipro, Ukraine) — 1942, Moscow, Soviet Union
Russian Empire · Germany
Moses Schonfinkel is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Founder of combinatory logic
Schönfinkel founded combinatory logic, introducing the combinators that allow all functions to be built without bound variables — an idea central to modern functional programming. He was born to a Jewish family in Ekaterinoslav.
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Founder of combinatory logic
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
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