Stephen Cole Kleene Quotes

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

I went to Princeton in the fall of 1930 as a half-time instructor.

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

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

I think Veblen had an interest in logic.

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

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

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

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

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

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