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Lambda Calculus For Dummies: The Church Encoding

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Mar 2, 2026
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In this video we will talk about the church encoding, which is a way to encode basic data types and operations between said data types as functions in the lambda calculus. This video will be part of a series that I called "Lambda Calculus For Dummies", to stress that I will try to make these videos as accessible and simple as possible. Tags: #lambdacalculus #functionalprogramming #functions #lambdaexpressions #mathematics lambda calculus lambda term lambda expression church encoding church numerals computation as functions selectors turing completeness what is a lambda expression lambda calculus for beginners beginner lambda calculus tutorial tutorial lambda calculus course lambda calculus series lambda calculus from scratch functions easy explanation theoretical computer science applied mathematics mathematics for computer science math for computer science maths for comp sci maths for computer science logic computer science comp sci programming functional programming haskell alonzo church turing computable functions lambda calculus for dummies applied lambda calculus ZFC function graph rule formula function rule programmer

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