Stephen Cole Kleene Quotes

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• I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic.
• In the fall term of 1933-34 I was on my family farm in Maine.
• The job in Wisconsin was the first genuine offer of an academic job in a university which I received.
• I had some hesitations about philosophy because, if you worked out a philosophical theory, it was hard to know whether you were going to be…
• I'm sure Church got some of his ideas from this trip to Europe.
• I think that after Church got his Ph.D. he studied in Europe, maybe in the Netherlands, for a year or two.
• I don't think Post often came to Princeton during the '30s. I can't remember ever seeing him in Princeton.
• I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy.
• Here at Wisconsin we didn't get an undergraduate course in mathematical logic until the '60s.
• I think Veblen had an interest in logic.
• I went to Princeton in the fall of 1930 as a half-time instructor.
• It wasn't until my second year that I got to actually work with Church.
• When I got to Princeton I made a point of attending the Philosophy Club and listening to the lectures, but I didn't get involved in…
• Well, I think Barkley and I were the only two who were working with Church for a Ph.D.
• Those three years ended with June 1933. At that time I left Princeton, having submitted my Ph.D. thesis.
• I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy.
• For example, the philosophers who were interested in logic were probably rather logical for mathematicians. But the ASL got us together, so we could talk…
• 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. I…
• As I say, there was this movement to try to bring philosophers and mathematicians together into an organization where they would talk to each other.…

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