He goes to the kitchen. "What are you doing?"
She says, "I'm trying to do this jigsaw puzzle."
"What's it supposed to be?" he asks.
She picks up the box. "A Rooster."
"Honey," he says. "Let's put the cornflakes back in the box....."
Stephen Cole KleeneDied 25 Jan 1994 at age 85 (born 5 Jan 1909).American mathematician and logician whose research was on the theory of algorithms and recursive functions. He developed the field of recursion theory with Church, Gödel, Turing and others. He contributed to mathematical Intuitionism which had been founded by Brouwer. His work on recursion theory helped to provide the foundations of theoretical computer science. By providing methods of determining which problems are soluble, Kleene's work led to the study of which functions can be computed. |
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