John Robert Kline Explained

John Robert Kline
Birth Date:	December 7, 1891
Birth Place:	Quakertown, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Death Date:	May 2, 1955 (aged 63)
Death Place:	Quakertown, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Fields:	Mathematics
Workplaces:	University of Pennsylvania
Alma Mater:	University of Pennsylvania
Doctoral Advisor:	R. L. Moore
Doctoral Students:	Athanasios Papoulis Lida Barrett Arthur Milgram D. Weldon Woodard Leo Zippin
Known For:	Kline sphere characterization

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

• 1919 . John Robert Kline . Concerning Sense on Closed Curves in Non-Metrical Plane Analysis Situs . The Annals of Mathematics . 21 . 113 - 119 . 10.2307/2007227 . 2007227 . 2 . Annals of Mathematics.
• January 1923 . John Robert Kline . Closed Connected Sets Which Are Disconnected by the Removal of a Finite Number of Points . Proc Natl Acad Sci USA . 9 . 7–12 . 10.1073/pnas.9.1.7 . 16586914 . 1 . 1085211. 1923PNAS....9....7K . free .
• May 1924 . John Robert Kline . Concerning the Division of the Plane by Continua . Proc Natl Acad Sci USA . 10 . 176 - 177 . 10.1073/pnas.10.5.176 . 16576811 . 5 . 1085587. 1924PNAS...10..176K . free .
• 1927 . John Robert Kline . Concerning the sum of a countable infinity of mutually exclusive continua . 10.1007/BF01475482 . Mathematische Zeitschrift . 26 . 687–690. 121489783 .

Notes and References

1. Web site: 3.7 Profile: John Robert Kline (1891-1955). EPADEL:A Semisesquicentennial History, 1926-2000. April 28, 2023.
2. Web site: RANK AND FILE AMERICAN MATHEMATICIANS . math.temple.edu . https://web.archive.org/web/20160306052035/https://math.temple.edu/~zit/Zitarelli/WP%20Rank%26File.pdf . 2020-07-10. 2016-03-06 .
3. http://legacyrlmoore.org/reference/fitzpatrick.html The Legacy of R. L. Moore, The Students of R. L. Moore — Ben Fitzpatrick, Jr.
4. https://www.maa.org/programs-and-communities/outreach-initiatives/summa/summa-archival-record/william-claytor William W. Schieffelin Claytor
5. Web site: APS Member History . 2023-04-28 . search.amphilsoc.org.