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

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"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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"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."

First

"I'm sure Church got some of his ideas from this trip to Europe."

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

First

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

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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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"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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