Pioneers

Stephen Cole Kleene

Theory of Computation

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Computing Atlas. "Stephen Cole Kleene." Accessed August 31, 2026. https://computing.interactiveatlas.org/pioneers/stephen-cole-kleene.

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Computing Atlas. (n.d.). Stephen Cole Kleene. Retrieved August 31, 2026, from https://computing.interactiveatlas.org/pioneers/stephen-cole-kleene

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@misc{computingatlas-stephen-cole-kleene,
  author = {Computing Atlas},
  title = {Stephen Cole Kleene},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://computing.interactiveatlas.org/pioneers/stephen-cole-kleene},
  note = {Accessed August 31, 2026}
}

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.

Facts

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.

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