Mathematician:Stephen Cole Kleene

Mathematician
American mathematician best known as 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's Normal Form Theorem
 * Kleene Closure
 * Kleene Hierarchy
 * Kleene-Rosser Paradox (with )
 * Kleene-Mostowski Hierarchy (with )

Publications

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