Stephen Cole Kleene

I had some hesitations about philosophy because, if you worked out a philosophical theory, it was hard to know whether you were going to be able to prove it or whether other theories had just as good a claim on belief.

I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy.

When I got to Princeton I made a point of attending the Philosophy Club and listening to the lectures, but I didn't get involved in any discussions in those clubs. I guess after the first year, I dropped that.

I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy.

The job in Wisconsin was the first genuine offer of an academic job in a university which I received.

I think Veblen had an interest in logic.

I don't think Post often came to Princeton during the '30s. I can't remember ever seeing him in Princeton.

For example, the philosophers who were interested in logic were probably rather logical for mathematicians. But the ASL got us together, so we could talk to each other and publish in the same journal.

Well, I think Barkley and I were the only two who were working with Church for a Ph.D.

In the fall term of 1933-34 I was on my family farm in Maine.

I went to Princeton in the fall of 1930 as a half-time instructor.

Those three years ended with June 1933. At that time I left Princeton, having submitted my Ph.D. thesis.