The job in Wisconsin was the first genuine offer of an academic job in a university which I received.
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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
Here at Wisconsin we didn't get an undergraduate course in mathematical logic until the '60s.
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
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.
Stephen Cole Kleene
In the fall term of 1933-34 I was on my family farm in Maine.
Stephen Cole Kleene
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