Oswald Veblen

Person · Open Library

Born

1880

Died

1960

Works

16

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Female

Origin

Washington, D.C.

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Status and Ecological Effects of the World’s Largest Carnivores

   · 2014 · cited 3,193x

2. STUDIES ON THE CHEMICAL NATURE OF THE SUBSTANCE INDUCING TRANSFORMATION OF PNEUMOCOCCAL TYPES

   · 1944 · cited 2,587x

3. A communal catalogue reveals Earth’s multiscale microbial diversity

   · 2017 · cited 2,543x

4. The<i>Galaxy Evolution Explorer</i>: A Space Ultraviolet Survey Mission

   · 2005 · cited 2,206x

5. One-Year stable perovskite solar cells by 2D/3D interface engineering

   · 2017 · cited 1,966x

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Quotes

• “In instituting the , the has recognized the dual character of mathematics. On the one hand, mathematics is one of the essential emanations of the human spirit,—a thing to be valued in and for itself, like art or poetry. made notable contributions to this side of mathematics in his work on and multiple algebras.On the other hand, mathematics is the handmaiden and the helper of the other sciences, both in their most abstract generalizations and in their most concrete applications in industry.”

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Key facts

Born

( 1880-06-24 ) June 24, 1880, Decorah, Iowa , U.S.

Died

August 10, 1960 (1960-08-10) (aged 80), Brooklin, Maine , U.S.

Alma mater

University of Iowa , Harvard University , University of Chicago

Known for

Veblen function , Veblen hierarchy , Veblen ordinal , Veblen's theorem , Veblen–Young theorem , Veblen–Wedderburn systems , Fixed-point lemma for normal functions

Institutions

Princeton University , Institute for Advanced Study

Thesis

A System of Axioms for Geometry (1903)

Doctoral advisor

E. H. Moore

Doctoral students

J. W. Alexander , H. Roy Brahana , Alonzo Church , Philip Franklin , Wallace Givens , Harold Hotelling , Howard H. Mitchell , Robert Lee Moore , Tracy Thomas , J. H. C. Whitehead

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