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


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


"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."


"Here at Wisconsin we didn't get an undergraduate course in mathematical logic until the '60s."


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


"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 think that after Church got his Ph.D. he studied in Europe, maybe in the Netherlands, for a year or two."


"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."


"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."
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