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Stephen Cole Kleene

"I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy."

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"I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way."

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"The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself."

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"Mathematics doesn't care about those beyond the numbers."

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"I tried to fit it in with some previous broad conceptual understanding of some part of mathematics that would clarify the particular problem I was thinking about."

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"My mathematics is simple: one plus one = one."

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"There should be no such thing as boring mathematics."

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"In my schooling through high school, I excelled mainly in chemistry, physics and mathematics."

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"I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics."

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""Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics."

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"I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto."

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Stephen Cole Kleene
"The job in Wisconsin was the first genuine offer of an academic job in a university which I received."

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Stephen Cole Kleene
"I think Veblen had an interest in logic."

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

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

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Stephen Cole Kleene
"I don't think Post often came to Princeton during the '30s. I can't remember ever seeing him in Princeton."

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Stephen Cole Kleene
"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."

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Stephen Cole Kleene
"In the fall term of 1933-34 I was on my family farm in Maine."

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Stephen Cole Kleene
"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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Stephen Cole Kleene
"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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Stephen Cole Kleene
"Well, I think Barkley and I were the only two who were working with Church for a Ph.D."

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