Stephen Cole Kleene was one of the greatest logicians of the twentieth century and this book is the influential textbook he wrote to teach the subject to the next generation. It was first published in 1952, some twenty years after the publication of GAdel's paper on the incompleteness of arithmetic, which marked, if not the beginning of modern logic, at least a turning point after which a oenothing was ever the same.a  Kleene was an important figure in logic, and lived a long full life of scholarship and teaching. The 1930s was a time of creativity and ferment in the subject, when...