ABSTRACT
Morris Kline was Professor Emeritus of the Courant Institute of the Mathematical Sciences at New York University and has been Visiting Distinguished Professor at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. He received his doctorate at NYU and began a career of teaching and research in 1930. Between 1936 and 1938 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. Though trained as a topologist he is known as a research mathematician mainly for his work in diff erential equations and applied mathematics. For many years he directed the Courant Institute’s Division of Electromagnetic Research. He has been awarded numerous academic honors-a Gug genheim Fellowship, a Fulbright Visiting Lectureship, various visiting professorships, and a Great Teacher Award at NYU.
