John Robert Kline

John Robert Kline
Born	1891 Quakertown, Pennsylvania
Died	1955
Nationality	United States
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	University of Pennsylvania
Alma mater	University of Pennsylvania
Doctoral advisor	R. L. Moore
Doctoral students	William Ayres Donald Flanders Arthur Milgram
Known for	Kline sphere characterization

John Robert Kline (1891–1955) was a US-American Professor of Mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania from 1920 to 1955. A Ph.D. student of Robert Lee Moore, he was 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.

Partial bibliography

John Robert Kline (1919). "Concerning Sense on Closed Curves in Non-Metrical Plane Analysis Situs". The Annals of Mathematics (Annals of Mathematics) 21 (2): 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. doi:10.1073/pnas.9.1.7. PMC 1085211. PMID 16586914. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=1085211.
John Robert Kline (May 1924). "Concerning the Division of the Plane by Continua". Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 10 (5): 176–177. doi:10.1073/pnas.10.5.176. PMC 1085587. PMID 16576811. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=1085587.
John Robert Kline (1927). "Concerning the sum of a countable infinity of mutually exclusive continua". Mathematische Zeitschrift 26: 687. doi:10.1007/BF01475482.