26 Quotes by 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.

I suppose Church's course had six or eight people in it, but I can't remember the name of even another one of them now. None of them went into logic.

I returned to Princeton with a research assistantship on February 7, 1934, and remained there through the academic year 1934-35.

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.

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. An organization wasn't effective unless you had a journal. That's about all I know.

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 think the second paper wasn't published until well after the course was finished.

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 to each other and publish in the same journal.

I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy.