Stephen Cole Kleene was an American mathematician and logician. One of the students of Alonzo Church, he is best known as a founder of the branch of mathematical logic known as recursion theory, which subsequently helped provide the foundations of theoretical computer science; his work grounds the study of computable functions. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Stephen Cole Kleene ... January 5, 1909, January 25, 1994) was an American mathematician and logician. One of the students of Alonzo Church, Kleene, along with Rózsa Péter, Alan Turing, Emil Post, and others, is best known as a founder of the branch of mathematical logic known as recursion theory, which subsequently helped to provide the foundations of theoretical computer science.
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January 5, 1909
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January 25, 1994
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