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Combinatory
Combinatory meaning
Of, relating to, or derived from a combination or combinations; combinative or combinatorial. | Of, relating to, or derived from a combination or combinations; combinative or combinatorial. | conditioned on a combination of phonemes (rather than a phoneme changing by itself in any position)
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Combinatory logic was developed with great ambitions: understanding the nature of paradoxes, making foundations of mathematics more economic (conceptually), eliminating the notion of variables (thus clarifying their role in mathematics).
Despite its apparent simplicity, Tic-tac-toe requires detailed analysis to determine even some elementary combinatory facts, the most interesting of which are the number of possible games and the number of possible positions.
D. in 1930 with a dissertation on combinatory logic. citation In 1928, before leaving for Göttingen, Curry married Mary Virginia Wheatley.
In 1927, while an instructor at Princeton University, he discovered the work of Moses Schönfinkel in combinatory logic.
In 1970, after finishing the second volume of his treatise on the combinatory logic, Curry retired from the University of Amsterdam and returned to State College, Pennsylvania.