*** primitive and general recursive functions

Péter Rózsa
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Péter, Rózsa; Über den Zusammenhang der verschiedenen Begriffe der rekursiven Funktion. (German) Math. Ann. 110 (1935), no. 1, 612--632. 
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Péter, Rózsa. 1967. Recursive Functions. Translated by István Földes. New York: Academic Press.

*** general and partial recursive functions

Stephen Cole Kleene
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"General recursive functions of natural numbers." Mathematische Annalen, vol. 112 (1936): 727-742. Reprinted with addendum in: Undecidable; Basic Papers on Undecidable Propositions, Unsolvable Problems and Computable Functions. ed. by Martin Davis, Raven Press Books, 1965.
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Introduction to Metamathematics. D. Van Nostrand Co., Inc., New York, N. Y., 1952. 

*** recursive functions and LISP

John McCarthy
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McCarthy, J. 1960. Recursive functions of symbolic expressions and their computation by machine. Communications of the ACM 3(4):184-195.
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McCarthy, J. 1963a A basis for a mathematical theory of computation. In Computer Programming and formal systems. North-Holland.
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