Mathematician:Johann Benedict Listing

German mathematician and physicist who coined the term "topology" in a letter of 1836.

In 1858 he invented the Möbius strip at about the same time that August Ferdinand Möbius did.

Nationality
German

History

 * Born: July 25, 1808, Frankfurt, Germany
 * Died: December 24, 1882, Göttingen, Germany

Theorems and Definitions

 * Möbius Strip

Books and Papers

 * 1834: De Superficiebus Secundi Ordinis
 * 1845: Beiträge zur Physiologischen Optik
 * 1847: Vorstudien zur Topologie
 * 1862: Der Census raumlicher Complexe oder Verallgemeinerung des Euler'schen Satzes von den Polyedern