Definition:Algorithmic Computability

Definition
The concept of algorithmic computability is an intuitive one.

An algorithmically computable function is a function which can be carried by means of an algorithm, theoretically by a person using pencil and paper.

The concept arose in the decades before the invention of digital computers. Much of the theoretical groundwork was done in the 1930s by such as, and.

The term used by when he discussed the issue in how his famous Church's Thesis was effectively calculable.