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{{Short description|Sequence of operations for a task}}

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[[File:Diagram for the computation of Bernoulli numbers.jpg|thumb|[[Ada Lovelace]]'s diagram from "[[Note G]]", the first published computer algorithm]]

In 1928, a partial formalization of the modern concept of algorithms began with attempts to solve the ''[[Entscheidungsproblem]] ''(decision problem) posed by [[David Hilbert]]. Later formalizations were framed as attempts to define "[[effective calculability]]"<ref>Kleene 1943 in Davis 1965:274</ref> or "effective method".<ref>Rosser 1939 in Davis 1965:225</ref> Those formalizations included the [[Kurt Gödel|Gödel]]–-[[Jacques Herbrand|Herbrand]]–-[[Stephen Cole Kleene|Kleene]] recursive functions of 1930, 1934 and 1935, [[Alonzo Church]]'s [[lambda calculus]] of 1936, [[Emil Post]]'s [[Formulation 1]] of 1936, and [[Alan Turing]]'s [[Turing machines]] of 1936–37 and 1939.

==Representations==