When I got to Princeton I m... by Stephen Cole Kleene, an American Mathematician

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“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 any discussions in those clubs. I guess after the first year, I dropped that.”

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Name: Stephen Cole Kleene

Nationality: American

Date of Birth: Jan 5, 1909

Date of Death: Jan 25, 1994

Profession: Mathematician

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

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

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

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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.

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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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