John Robert Kline (December 7, 1891 – May 2, 1955)[1] was an American mathematician and educator.
John Robert Kline | |
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 John Robert Kline (right) | |
| Born | December 7, 1891 Quakertown, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Died | May 2, 1955 (aged 63) Quakertown, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Alma mater | University of Pennsylvania |
| Known for | Kline sphere characterization |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Pennsylvania |
| Doctoral advisor | R. L. Moore |
| Doctoral students | |
Biography
editOne of three children born to Henry K. Kline and Emma M. Kline, he was Professor of mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania from 1920 to 1955. A Ph.D. student of Robert Lee Moore, he was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1925, later Chairman of the Department of Mathematics from 1933 to 1954, and Thomas A. Scott Professor of Mathematics from 1941 to 1955.[2]
His doctoral students include Lida Barrett, Arthur Milgram, Athanasios Papoulis, Dudley Weldon Woodard, Leo Zippin,[3] and William Waldron Schieffelin Claytor.[4]
Kline was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1941.[5]
Partial bibliography
edit- John Robert Kline (1919). "Concerning Sense on Closed Curves in Non-Metrical Plane Analysis Situs". The Annals of Mathematics. 21 (2). Annals of Mathematics: 113–119. doi:10.2307/2007227. JSTOR 2007227.
- John Robert Kline (January 1923). "Closed Connected Sets Which Are Disconnected by the Removal of a Finite Number of Points". Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 9 (1): 7–12. Bibcode:1923PNAS....9....7K. doi:10.1073/pnas.9.1.7. PMC 1085211. PMID 16586914.
- John Robert Kline (May 1924). "Concerning the Division of the Plane by Continua". Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 10 (5): 176–177. Bibcode:1924PNAS...10..176K. doi:10.1073/pnas.10.5.176. PMC 1085587. PMID 16576811.
- John Robert Kline (1927). "Concerning the sum of a countable infinity of mutually exclusive continua". Mathematische Zeitschrift. 26: 687–690. doi:10.1007/BF01475482. S2CID 121489783.
References
edit- ^ "3.7 Profile: John Robert Kline (1891-1955)". EPADEL:A Semisesquicentennial History, 1926-2000. Retrieved April 28, 2023.
- ^ "RANK AND FILE AMERICAN MATHEMATICIANS" (PDF). math.temple.edu. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-06. Retrieved 2020-07-10.
- ^ The Legacy of R. L. Moore, The Students of R. L. Moore — Ben Fitzpatrick, Jr., legacyrlmoore.org; accessed July 9, 2020.
- ^ William W. Schieffelin Claytor at the Mathematical Association of America
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2023-04-28.