Mathematician:Oswald Veblen

Mathematician

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.

Results named for Oswald Veblen can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Oswald Veblen can be found here.

Publications

• 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, Volume 1 (with John Wesley Young)
• 1918: Projective Geometry, Volume 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

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Oswald Veblen": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive

• 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Veblen, Oswald (1880-1960)
• 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Veblen, Oswald (1880-1960)