Stephen Cole Kleene

Stephen Cole Kleene

Stephen Cole Kleene (January 5, 1909, Hartford, Connecticut, USA - January 25, 1994, Madison, Wisconsin), the American mathematician who helped lay the foundations for theoretical computer science

Legal name, Full name

"Stephen Cole Kleene"

Born

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1909; January 1909; January 5th 1909; the United States; North America;  …

Connecticut; New England; the world; the Americas; Northeastern United States; Hartford, Connecticut; the Northern Hemisphere; the Connecticut 860 telephone code area; Hartford County, CT; the EST/EDT region; the contiguous United States; the continental United States; the G8; the area using the NANP; the US dollar zone; North America

Died

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1994; January 1994; January 25th 1994; the United States; North America;  …

Wisconsin; the world; the Americas; Madison, Wisconsin; the Northern Hemisphere; Northwest Territory; the Wisconsin 608 telephone code area; Indiana Territory; Dane County, WI; the area using the NANP; the US dollar zone; the Central Standard Time region; the continental United States; the contiguous United States; the G8; North America

Occupation

Computer scientist

Wikipedia Page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Cole_Kleene

Gender

male

Nationality

american

Residence

the United States; Hartford, Connecticut

Researcher of

mathematics

Educated

Princeton University, Amherst College

Last Name

"Kleene"

First Name

"Stephen"

Employer

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Main Occupation

mathematician

Doctoral Students

Yiannis N. Moschovakis

Doctoral Advisor

Alonzo Church

Age at Death

85 years, 0 months and 20 days old

Class

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person, scientist, mathematician, Capricorn person, academic,  …

award winner, Computer Scientist

Did

die (1994)

Went to

Amherst College

Influenced, Influence

John McCarthy, Yiannis N. Moschovakis, Dick de Jongh

Born During

January 1st 1900, 00:00 - December 31st 1909, 23:59

Died During

the 1990s

Related Websites

http://www.princeton.edu/~mudd/finding_aids/mathoral/pmc23.htm, http://infoshare1.princeton.edu/libraries/firestone/rbsc/finding_aids/mathoral/pmc23.htm, http://math.library.wisc.edu/bibliography.html, http://www.nap.edu/html/biomems/skleene.html

Influences

Kurt Gödel, Alonzo Church

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DBLP URI

http://www4.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/dblp/resource/person/266894

DBPedia URI

http://dbpedia.org/resource/Stephen_Cole_Kleene

Middle-name

"Cole"

Birthday

the 5th of January

Quotes

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"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."; "The job in Wisconsin was the first genuine offer of an academic job in a university which I received."; "In the fall term of 1933-34 I was on my family farm in Maine."; "I went to Princeton in the fall of 1930 as a half-time instructor.";  …

"I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy."; "I think Veblen had an interest in logic."; "I think that after Church got his Ph.D. he studied in Europe, maybe in the Netherlands, for a year or two."; "I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic."; "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 able to prove it or whether other theories had just as good a claim on belief."; "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 to each other and publish in the same journal."

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