John Robert Kline (December 7, 1891 – May 2, 1955) 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
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at the
University of Pennsylvania
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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.
His doctoral students include
Lida Barrett, Donald Flanders, Joseph Harrison Kusner,
Arthur Milgram,
Athanasios Papoulis,
Dudley Weldon Woodard,
Leo Zippin
Leo Zippin (January 25, 1905 – May 11, 1995) was an American mathematician. He is best known for solving Hilbert's fifth problem, Hilbert's Fifth Problem with Deane Montgomery and Andrew M. Gleason in 1952.
Biography
Leo Zippin was born in 19 ...
, and
William Waldron Schieffelin Claytor.
Kline was elected to the
American Philosophical Society
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in 1941.
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1891 births
1955 deaths
People from Quakertown, Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania faculty
Mathematicians at the University of Pennsylvania
20th-century American mathematicians
Members of the American Philosophical Society