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After about 9 minutes I definitely still don’t understand lambda calculus at all.


You could try the book "Haskell programming from first principles", there's a good introduction to lambda calculus in chapter 1 or 2.

Proceeding further in the Haskell-land might help even more, since Haskell is essentially typed lambda calculus.


Have you ever used Lisp or a similar functional language? Understanding those helps to understand Lambda calculus. That and an advanced Math degree. :)




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