[Haskell-cafe] why the name lambda calculus?

[Christopher Done]

IIRC Church found it easy to write on paper.

On 21 August 2011 21:11, Jack Henahan <jhenahan at uvm.edu> wrote:
> The short answer is "because Church said so". But yes, it is basically because λ is the abstraction operator in the calculus.
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> Why not alpha or beta calculus? What would we call alpha and beta conversion, then? :D
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> On Aug 21, 2011, at 12:37 PM, C K Kashyap wrote:
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>> Hi,
>> Can someone please tell me what is the root of the name lambda calculus? Is it just because of the symbol lambda that is used?
>> Why not alpha or beta calculus?
>> Regards,
>> Kashyap
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