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MATHEMATICIAN

Stephen Cole Kleene

1909 - 1994

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Stephen Cole Kleene ( KLAY-nee; January 5, 1909 – January 25, 1994) was an American mathematician. One of the students of Alonzo Church, Kleene, along with Rózsa Péter, Alan Turing, Emil Post, and others, is best known as a founder of the branch of mathematical logic known as recursion theory, which subsequently helped to provide the foundations of theoretical computer science. Kleene's work grounds the study of computable functions. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Stephen Cole Kleene has received more than 331,177 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Stephen Cole Kleene is the 409th most popular mathematician (down from 404th in 2019), the 3,505th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,302nd in 2019) and the 24th most popular American Mathematician.

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  • 3.72

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Stephen Cole Kleene ranks 409 out of 823. Before him are Ernst Schröder, Hendrik C. van de Hulst, Bruno Abakanowicz, Hermann Hankel, Daniele Barbaro, and Yakov Sinai. After him are Richard E. Bellman, Simon Antoine Jean L'Huilier, Heisuke Hironaka, Ernest William Brown, Diocles, and Luigi Cremona.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Stephen Cole Kleene ranks 141. Before him are Dana Andrews, Jerzy Andrzejewski, Sylvère Maes, Hermann Lang, Laxmi Prasad Devkota, and Johannes Willebrands. After him are Colonel Tom Parker, W. Montgomery Watt, Burl Ives, Marie-Thérèse Walter, Marion Dönhoff, and Géza Toldi. Among people deceased in 1994, Stephen Cole Kleene ranks 136. Before him are Antoine Pinay, Haim Bar-Lev, Jean Carmet, Billy Wright, Leonid Leonov, and Giovanni Spadolini. After him are Manfred Wörner, Sam Francis, Stanisław Maczek, Vaikom Muhammad Basheer, Mildred Natwick, and Vitas Gerulaitis.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Stephen Cole Kleene ranks 3,505 out of 18,182. Before him are Erroll Garner (1923), Sister Rosetta Tharpe (1915), Adam Levine (1979), Edward Bellamy (1850), Steve Perry (1949), and Deke Slayton (1924). After him are Carmen Electra (1972), Seth MacFarlane (1973), John Paul Getty III (1956), Tim Buckley (1947), Michael Graves (1934), and Tracey Adams (1958).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United States

Among mathematicians born in United States, Stephen Cole Kleene ranks 24. Before him are Stephen Smale (1930), Edward Kasner (1878), John G. Thompson (1932), Jim Simons (1938), Raymond Smullyan (1919), and Julia Robinson (1919). After him are Richard E. Bellman (1920), Whitfield Diffie (1944), Mitchell Feigenbaum (1944), George David Birkhoff (1884), William Thurston (1946), and Haskell Curry (1900).

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