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"It wasn't until my second year that I got to actually work with Church."
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"Here at Wisconsin we didn't get an undergraduate course in mathematical logic until the '60s."

"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."

"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."

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

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

"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."

"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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