TOWARDS A MATHEMATICAL SCIENCE OF COMPUTATION

Towards a Mathematical Science of Computation was given at the congress IFIP-62 and published in the proceedings of that conference. It extends the results of A Basis for a Mathematical Theory of Computation which was first given in 1961.

I think this paper includes the first use of the term abstract syntax and maybe the first occurrence of the idea.

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