How Close Did Kurt G del Get to the University of o Wyoming? Robin K. Hill University of Wyoming Ellbogen Center for Teaching and Learning hill@uwyo.edu Copyright c Robin K. Hill, 2007 Figure 1: John Cowles, Robin Hill, and Burke Grandjean When Kurt G del died, in 1978, I was mildly impressed, in the way that a young person o is lightly touched by the passing of someone of importance and in uence, wondering casually how he could allow himself to make such an unprepossessing move as wasting away. A good portion of the previous two years of my life had been devoted to the study of his results in mathematical logic, in a master s degree program at the University of East Anglia, in Britain. Despite due gratitude and admiration, the fact that I had found an area of inquiry that enraptured me brought no sense of personal tragedy at this event. I was back in my home town of Laramie, Wyoming, considering future options, peacefully insulated from Old World intellectualism. Eighteen years later found me again at the University of Wyoming, with a Ph.D in computer science, as a member of the faculty. My colleague in
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