Dr. Stephen Cole Kleene
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(b.) -1909(d.)1994
Bio/Description
One of many distinguished students of Alonzo Church, Kleene, along with Alan Turing, Emil Post, and others, is best known as a founder of the branch of mathematical logic known as recursion theory. Kleene's work grounds the study of which functions are computable. A number of mathematical concepts are named after him: Kleene hierarchy, Kleene algebra, the Kleene star (Kleene closure), Kleene's recursion theorem and the Kleene fixpoint theorem. He also invented regular expressions, and was a leading American advocate of mathematical intuitionism.
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Date of Birth:
1909 -
Date of Death:
1994 -
Gender:
Male -
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American mathematician who helped lay the foundations for theoretical computer science -
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