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

Stephen Cole Kleene, American Mathematician

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

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

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

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

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