Johann Benedict Listing
German mathematician
Intro | German mathematician | |
Places | Germany | |
was | Mathematician Scientist Topologist Physicist Educator | |
Work field | Academia Mathematics Science | |
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Birth | 25 July 1808, Frankfurt | |
Death | 24 December 1882Göttingen (aged 74 years) |
Johann Benedict Listing (25 July 1808 – 24 December 1882) was a German mathematician.
J. B. Listing was born in Frankfurt and died in Göttingen. He first introduced the term "topology", in a famous article published in 1847, although he had used the term in correspondence some years earlier. He (independently) discovered the properties of the half-twisted strip at the same time (1858) as August Ferdinand Möbius, and went further in exploring the properties of strips with higher-order twists (paradromic rings). He discovered topological invariants which came to be called Listing numbers.
In ophthalmology, Listing's law describes an essential element of extraocular eye muscle coordination.