John L. Kelley

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John L. Kelley
Gordon Thomas Whyburn
Doctoral studentsVashishtha Narayan Singh, James Michael Gardner Fell, Isaac Namioka, and Reese Prosser

John L. Kelley (December 6, 1916, Kansas – November 26, 1999, Berkeley, California) was an American mathematician at the University of California, Berkeley, who worked in general topology and functional analysis.

Kelley's 1955 text, General Topology, which eventually appeared in three editions and several translations, is a classic and widely cited graduate-level introduction to

axiomatic set theory, now called Morse–Kelley set theory, that builds on Von Neumann–Bernays–Gödel set theory. He introduced the first definition of a subnet.[1]

After earning B.A. (1936) and M.A. (1937) degrees from the

Kanpur, India. An Indian mathematician, Vashishtha Narayan Singh
, was among those mentored by Kelley.

In 1950, Kelley was one of 29 tenured Berkeley faculty (3 of whom were members of the Mathematics Department) dismissed for refusing to sign a

California Supreme Court declared the oath unconstitutional and directed UC Berkeley to rehire the dismissed academics. He was later an outspoken opponent of the Vietnam War
.

Kelley's interest in teaching extended well beyond the higher reaches of mathematics. In 1960, he took a leave of absence to serve as the National Teacher on

new math
" of that era. In 1964, he led his department to introduce a new major called Mathematics for Teachers, and later taught one of its core courses. These endeavors culminated in the text Kelley and Richert (1970). In 1977–78, he was a member of the U.S. Commission on Mathematical Instruction.

His doctoral students include Vashishtha Narayan Singh, James Michael Gardner Fell, Isaac Namioka, and Reese Prosser.

Books by Kelley

References

  1. OCLC 840278135
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  2. Horizon Press
  3. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1954-09802-6
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  4. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1956-09984-7
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