Mathematician:Johann Benedict Listing

Mathematician

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

Definitions of concepts named for Johann Benedict Listing can be found here.

Publications

• 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

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Johann Benedict Listing": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive