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From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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Subject: Re: [OT] Denis Ritchie Education
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"Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> writes:
>     I was told that DMR' thesis was in "recursive functions". Now I've 
> always assumed maybe being wrong that back then this may have been a 
> mathematics recursive functions and he was a Mathematician. Does anyone know 
> if his PhD was mathematics or computer science?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Ritchie

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