I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy.
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I suppose Church's course had six or eight people in it, but I can't remember the name of even another one of them now. None of them went into logic.Stephen Cole Kleene
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.
Stephen Cole Kleene
Those three years ended with June 1933. At that time I left Princeton, having submitted my Ph.D. thesis.
Stephen Cole Kleene
I returned to Princeton with a research assistantship on February 7, 1934, and remained there through the academic year 1934-35.
Stephen Cole Kleene
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.
Stephen Cole Kleene
Here at Wisconsin we didn't get an undergraduate course in mathematical logic until the '60s.
Stephen Cole Kleene
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