Lecture Notes on the Lambda Calculus

Download or read book Lecture Notes on the Lambda Calculus written by Peter Selinger and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a set of lecture notes that developed out of courses on the lambda calculus that the author taught at the University of Ottawa in 2001 and at Dalhousie University in 2007 and 2013. Topics covered in these notes include the untyped lambda calculus, the Church-Rosser theorem, combinatory algebras, the simply-typed lambda calculus, the Curry-Howard isomorphism, weak and strong normalization, polymorphism, type inference, denotational semantics, complete partial orders, and the language PCF.