Oral history interview with Alonzo Church, 1984 May 17.

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Oral history interview with Alonzo Church, 1984 May 17.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63283803

Church mentions his two years as a National Research Council Fellow, the first year at Harvard, the second year at Goettingen and Amsterdam (where he worked with L. E. J. Brouwer). Church talks at greater length about his years as a graduate student at Princeton. He was especially influenced by Oswald Veblen. Church talks about his first years of teaching at Princeton and about his graduate students, including Stephen Kleene, Barkley Rosser, John Kemeny, and Alan Turing. Church tells of his discussions with Kurt Gòˆdel and his work as editor of the Journal of Symbolic Logic.

Transcript : 15 p.

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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SNAC Resource ID: 7885084

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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