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Computing with Functionals—Computability Theory or Computer Science?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 January 2014

Dag Normann
Dag Normann*
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Department of Mathematics, The University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1053, Blindern N-0316 Oslo, Norway. E-mail: dnormann@math.uio.no
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Abstract

We review some of the history of the computability theory of functionals of higher types, and we will demonstrate how contributions from logic and theoretical computer science have shaped this still active subject.

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Bulletin of Symbolic Logic , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , March 2006, pp. 43 - 59
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Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 2006

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