Mathematician:Oswald Veblen

American mathematician, geometer and topologist, whose work found application in atomic physics and the theory of relativity.

Proved the Jordan Curve Theorem in 1905.

Nationality
American

History

 * Born: 24 June 1880 in Decorah, Iowa, USA
 * Died: 10 August 1960 in Brooklyn, Maine, USA

Theorems and Definitions

 * Veblen-Young Theorem (with John Wesley Young)
 * Veblen Axioms
 * Veblen Function
 * Veblen Ordinal

Proved the Jordan Curve Theorem.

Books and Papers

 * 1903: A System of Axioms for Geometry
 * 1906: Finite projective geometries with W. H. Bussey)
 * 1907: Introduction to infinitesimal analysis; functions of one real variable (with N. J. Lennes)
 * 1907: Non-Desarguesian and non-Pascalian geometries (with Joseph Wedderburn)
 * 1910: Projective geometry Vol. 1 (with John Wesley Young)
 * 1918: Projective geometry Vol. 2
 * 1922: Analysis Situs (2nd ed. 1931)
 * 1927: Invariants of Quadratic Differential Forms
 * 1932: The Foundations of Differential Geometry (with J.H.C. Whitehead)
 * 1933: Projektive Relativitätstheorie