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Kleeneliness is next to Goedelness :-)

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* Born: 5 Jan 1909 Hartford?, Connecticut, USA
* Died: 25 Jan 1994 in Madison?, Wisconsin, USA
* The Kleene star as found in [regular expresssion]?s is named after him.

Academic career:



* first degree at [Amherst College]?
* received doctorate from Princeton University in 1934, supervised by [Alonzo Church]?, for a thesis entitled A Theory of Positive Integers in Formal Logic.
* Taught at Princeton until he joined the [University of Wisconsin]? at Madison in 1935.
* He became a full professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1948
* He remained on the staff there until he retired in 1979.

Important publications




* Introduction to Metamathematics (1952)
* Mathematical Logic (1967).

-- Jan Hidders
-- Jan Hidders

Kleeneliness is next to Goedelness :-)

-- Jan Hidders


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