Stephen Cole Kleene *34

Stephen Cole Kleene, emeritus professor of mathematics and computer science at the U. of Wisconsin, winner of numerous prestigious awards including the President s Natl. Medal of Science, died Jan. 25, 1994. He was 85. He earned his AB degree at Amherst College and his PhD in mathematics at Princeton, studying with Prof. Alonzo Church. Most of his teaching career was spent at the U. of Wisconsin, where he served as chairman of the mathematics department. During WWII he was an officer in the Navy, a specialist in navigation and rose to the rank of lt. commander. He served as president of the Assn. of Symbolic Logic, president of the Intl. Union of the History and the Philosophy of Science, and editor of the Journal of Symbolic Logic. He was elected to the Natl. Academy of Sciences. He is survived by four children, eight grandchildren, and his second wife, Jeanne. His first wife died in 1970. We extend deep sympathy to his entire family.

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