The job in Wisconsin was the first genuine offer of an academic job in a university which I received. — Stephen Cole Kleene Copy Share Image
Here at Wisconsin we didn't get an undergraduate course in mathematical logic until the '60s. — Stephen Cole Kleene Copy Share Image
The job in Wisconsin was the first genuine offer of an academic job in a university which I received. — Stephen Cole Kleene Copy Share Image
I went to Princeton in the fall of 1930 as a half-time instructor. — Stephen Cole Kleene Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It wasn't until my second year that I got to actually work with Church. — Stephen Cole Kleene Copy Share Image
Well, I think Barkley and I were the only two who were working with Church for a Ph.D. — Stephen Cole Kleene Copy Share Image
I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic. — Stephen Cole Kleene Copy Share Image
