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American mathematician
John Wesley Young
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American mathematician
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Place of birth
Columbus
Place of death
Hanover
Age
52 years
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John Wesley Young (November 17, 1879, Columbus, Ohio, to February 17, 1932, Hanover, New Hampshire) was an American mathematician who, with Oswald Veblen, introduced the axioms of projective geometry, coauthored a 2-volume work on them, and proved the Veblen–Young theorem.
Publications
- Projective geometry with Oswald Veblen, Ginn and co., 1910–1918
- Projective Geometry. No. 4 of Carus Mathematical Monographs. Chicago: Open Court. 1930.
- Coolidge, Julian Lowell (1911). "Review: Projective Geometry by Oswald Veblen and John Wesley Young. Vol. I" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 18 (2): 70–81. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1911-02156-5.
- Moore, R. L. (1920). "Review: Projective Geometry by Oswald Veblen and John Wesley Young. Vol. II" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 26 (9): 412–425. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1920-03332-x.
- G. B. Mathews(1911) Review:Projective Geometry from Nature 86:207,8 (#2163)
- Carver, W. B. (1930). "Review: Projective Geometry by J. W. Young" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 37 (7): 499–500. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1931-05167-3.
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