John Wesley Young

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Name John Young		Role Mathematician

Died February 17, 1932, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States Books Projective Geometry, Totalitarian Language, Lectures on Fundamental Concepts of Algebra and Geometry

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.

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