How Long to Read The Lambda Calculus

By Henk Barendregt

How Long Does it Take to Read The Lambda Calculus?

It takes the average reader 11 hours and 11 minutes to read The Lambda Calculus by Henk Barendregt

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

The Lambda Calculus, treated in this book mainly in its untyped version, consists of a collection of expressions, called lambda terms, together with ways how to rewrite and identify these. In the parts conversion, reduction, theories, and models the view is respectively 'algebraic', computational, with more ('coinductive') identifications, and finally set-theoretic. The lambda terms are built up from variables, using application and abstraction. Applying a term F to M has as intention that F is a function, M its argument, and FM the result of the application. This is only the intention: to actually obtain the result one has to rewrite the expression FM according to the reduction rules. Abstraction provides a way to create functions according to the effect when applying them. The power of the theory comes from the fact that computations, both terminating and infinite, can be expressed by lambda terms at a 'comfortable' level of abstraction.

How long is The Lambda Calculus?

The Lambda Calculus by Henk Barendregt is 656 pages long, and a total of 167,936 words.

This makes it 221% the length of the average book. It also has 205% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Lambda Calculus Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 15 hours and 17 minutes to read The Lambda Calculus aloud.

What Reading Level is The Lambda Calculus?

The Lambda Calculus is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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