Undergraduate Quotes by Stephen Cole Kleene

The job in Wisconsin was the first genuine offer of an academic job in a university which I received.

— Stephen Cole Kleene

I went to Princeton in the fall of 1930 as a half-time instructor.

— Stephen Cole Kleene

I had some hesitations about philosophy because, if you worked out a philosophical theory, it was hard to know whether you were going to…

— Stephen Cole Kleene

And what I learned in Church's course. He trained us intensively in his new system, which he was just developing. Two papers were presented.…

— Stephen Cole Kleene

For example, the philosophers who were interested in logic were probably rather logical for mathematicians. But the ASL got us together, so we could…

— Stephen Cole Kleene

I think that after Church got his Ph.D. he studied in Europe, maybe in the Netherlands, for a year or two.

— Stephen Cole Kleene

As I say, there was this movement to try to bring philosophers and mathematicians together into an organization where they would talk to each…

— Stephen Cole Kleene

It wasn't until my second year that I got to actually work with Church.

— Stephen Cole Kleene

In the fall term of 1933-34 I was on my family farm in Maine.

— Stephen Cole Kleene

Well, I think Barkley and I were the only two who were working with Church for a Ph.D.

— Stephen Cole Kleene

I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic.

— Stephen Cole Kleene

I think Veblen had an interest in logic.

— Stephen Cole Kleene

I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy.

— Stephen Cole Kleene

I'm sure Church got some of his ideas from this trip to Europe.

— Stephen Cole Kleene

Those three years ended with June 1933. At that time I left Princeton, having submitted my Ph.D. thesis.

— Stephen Cole Kleene