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Name
  
John Young


Role
  
Mathematician

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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. 
  • References

    John Wesley Young Wikipedia