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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 358,195 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia. Stephen Cole Kleene is the 392nd most popular mathematician (up from 408th in 2019), the 3,109th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,495th in 2019) and the 19th most popular American Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Stephen Cole Kleene ranks 392 out of 1,004. Before him are Grigory Margulis, Maryam Mirzakhani, Lennart Carleson, Eugenio Beltrami, Ibn Sahl, and John G. Kemeny. After him are Raymond Smullyan, Qin Jiushao, Campanus of Novara, Lars Hörmander, Pierre Alphonse Laurent, and Richard Hamming.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Stephen Cole Kleene ranks 123. Before him are Pavle Đurišić, André Cayatte, Hendrik Casimir, Shigeo Shingo, Dana Andrews, and Lamberto Maggiorani. After him are Juan José Nogués, Jerzy Andrzejewski, Dean Rusk, David Frankfurter, Reuven Shiloah, and André Pieyre de Mandiargues. Among people deceased in 1994, Stephen Cole Kleene ranks 125. Before him are Giovanni Spadolini, Manfred Wörner, Claude Akins, Derek Jarman, Zail Singh, and Motoo Kimura. After him are Dean Rusk, John Edward Williams, Frederick Copleston, Billy Wright, Joe Pass, and William Conrad.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Stephen Cole Kleene ranks 3,109 out of 20,380. Before him are Daniel Inouye (1924), Daniel Boone (1734), Esther Lederberg (1922), Frances Sternhagen (1930), Larry Semon (1889), and Annie Proulx (1935). After him are Raymond Smullyan (1919), John Waters (1946), Jedediah Smith (1799), Sun Ra (1914), Carmen Electra (1972), and Harry Harlow (1905).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United States

Among mathematicians born in United States, Stephen Cole Kleene ranks 19. Before him are Lloyd Shapley (1923), John Milnor (1931), John G. Thompson (1932), Stephen Smale (1930), Edward Kasner (1878), and Sam Loyd (1841). After him are Raymond Smullyan (1919), Richard Hamming (1915), Richard S. Hamilton (1943), Jim Simons (1938), Whitfield Diffie (1944), and William Thurston (1946).

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