John L. Kelley
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John Leroy Kelley (December 6, 1916, Kansas – November 26, 1999, Oakland, California) was an American mathematician at University of California, Berkeley who worked in general topology and functional analysis.
After earning AB and MA degrees from the University of California, Los Angeles, he went to the University of Virginia, where he obtained his Ph.D. in 1940. His thesis, titled A study of hyperspaces, was written under the direction of Gordon Whyburn. Right after that, he started teaching at the University of Notre Dame, where he stayed until the outbreak of World War II. From 1942 to 1945, he worked at Aberdeen Proving Grounds in a small mathematical group. After the war, he went to the University of Chicago for two years, and then on to Berkeley in 1947. He was fired from Berkeley in 1950 for refusing to sign a loyalty oath, but rehired in 1953. He retired in 1985.
His book on general topology, which introduced Morse–Kelley set theory, has become a standard for graduate texts in mathematics.
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- General topology ISBN 0-387-90125-6
