Indicator Function/characteristic Function in Recursion Theory G%c3%b6dels and Kleenes Representing Function

Famous quotes containing the words function, theory and/or representing:

    “... The state’s one function is to give.
    The bud must bloom till blowsy blown
    Its petals loosen and are strown;
    And that’s a fate it can’t evade
    Unless ‘twould rather wilt than fade.”
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    The weakness of the man who, when his theory works out into a flagrant contradiction of the facts, concludes “So much the worse for the facts: let them be altered,” instead of “So much the worse for my theory.”
    George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

    ... today we round out the first century of a professed republic,—with woman figuratively representing freedom—and yet all free, save woman.
    Phoebe W. Couzins (1845–1913)