Stephen Cole Kleene was an American mathematician and logician who lived from 1909 to 1994 and became a founder of recursion theory, a branch of mathematical logic that laid groundwork for theoretical computer science. A student of Alonzo Church, he worked alongside Alan Turing and Emil Post in establishing the study of computable functions. He developed regular expressions and the Kleene star, contributed several theorems and hierarchies that bear his name, advanced mathematical intuitionism through recursive realizability, and received the National Medal of Science in 1990.
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FieldMathematical logic and recursion theory 1 Death PlaceMadison, Wisconsin, USA 1 BirthplaceHartford, Connecticut, USA 1 Field
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Born 5 January 1909 Hartford, Connecticut, USA
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Died 25 January 1994 Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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Stephen C Kleene was an American mathematician and logician best known his work on recursion theory.
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Stephen Cole Kleene ( ; January 5, 1909, January 25, 1994) was an American mathematician and logician.
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Stephen Cole Kleene ( ; January 5, 1909, January 25, 1994) was an American mathematician and logician.
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