John Robert Kline

John Robert Kline
John Robert Kline (right)
BornDecember 7, 1891
Quakertown, Pennsylvania, U.S.
DiedMay 2, 1955 (aged 63)
Quakertown, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Alma materUniversity of Pennsylvania
Known forKline sphere characterization
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Pennsylvania
Doctoral advisorR. L. Moore
Doctoral students

John Robert Kline (December 7, 1891 – May 2, 1955)[1] was an American mathematician and educator.

Biography

One 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

  • 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

  1. ^ "3.7 Profile: John Robert Kline (1891-1955)". EPADEL:A Semisesquicentennial History, 1926-2000. Retrieved April 28, 2023.
  2. ^ "RANK AND FILE AMERICAN MATHEMATICIANS" (PDF). math.temple.edu. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-06. Retrieved 2020-07-10.
  3. ^ The Legacy of R. L. Moore, The Students of R. L. Moore — Ben Fitzpatrick, Jr., legacyrlmoore.org; accessed July 9, 2020.
  4. ^ William W. Schieffelin Claytor Archived 2019-12-15 at the Wayback Machine at the Mathematical Association of America
  5. ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2023-04-28.