Mathematician:Stephen Cole Kleene

One of the great pioneers in the field of recursion theory.

Nationality
American

History

 * Born: January 5, 1909, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
 * Died: January 25, 1994, Madison, Wisconsin

Theorems and Definitions

 * Kleene Closure
 * Kleene Hierarchy
 * Kleene-Rosser Paradox

Books and Papers

 * 1952: Introduction to Metamathematics
 * 1956: Representation of Events in Nerve Nets and Finite Automata
 * 1965: The Foundations of Intuitionistic Mathematics (with Richard Eugene Vesley)
 * 1967: Mathematical Logic
 * 1981: Origins of Recursive Function Theory