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Stephen Cole Kleene

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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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Birth Year
1909 1
Birth Date
1909-01-05 1
Death Year
1994 1
Death Date
1994-01-25 1
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1. Wikipedia: Stephen Cole Kleene
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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.
  • Infobox, Born
    January 5, 1909
  • Infobox, Died
    January 25, 1994
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