Veblen, Oswald, 1880-1960

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Dates:
Birth 1880-06-24
Death 1960-08-10
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Biographical notes:

Mathematician.

From the description of Oswald Veblen papers, 1881-1960 (bulk 1920-1960). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71062378

Biographical Note

1880, June 24 Born, Decorah, Iowa 1898 A.B., University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 1900 A.B., Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. 1903 Ph. D., University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill. 1903 1905 Associate in mathematics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill. 1904 Published A System of Axioms for Geometry . . . Lancaster, Pa.: Press of the New Era Printing Co. 1905 1910 Preceptor in mathematics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill. 1907 Published with N. J. Lennes Introduction to Infinitesimal Analysis. New York: J. Wiley & Sons 1908 Married Elizabeth M. D. Richardson 1910 1918 Published with John Wesley Young Projective Geometry. Boston: Ginn & Co. 2 vols. 1910 1932 Professor of mathematics, Princeton University, Princeton, N.Y. 1917 1919 Officer in U. S. Army 1923 1924 President, American Mathematical Society 1923 1924 Chairman of the physical sciences, National Research Council 1927 Published Invariants of Quadratic Differential Forms. Cambridge University Press 1932 Published with J. H. C. Whitehead The Foundations of Differential Geometry. Cambridge [Eng.] University Press 1932 1960 Professor, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N. J. (professor emeritus, 1950-1960) 1950 President, International Congress of Mathematicians 1960 Died, Princeton, N.J.

From the guide to the Oswald Veblen Papers, 1881-1960, (bulk 1920-1960), (Manuscript Division Library of Congress)

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