nLab J. Barkley Rosser

J. Barkley Rosser (1907-1989) was an American mathematical logician, a former PhD student of Alonzo Church.

He is known for Church-Rosser theorem (wikipedia) in λ\lambda-calculus, Rosser sieve in number theory, Rosser’s trick (a strengthening of the Goedel’s incompleteness theorem, wikipedia) and the Kleene-Rosser paradox (wikipedia).

He wrote the monograph

  • J. Barkley Rosser, Logic for mathematicians, 1954

where we can also find a formalization of rule C.

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