ProofWiki:Mathematicians/Johann Benedict Listing

German mathematician and physicist who coined the term "topology" in a letter of 1836.

In 1858 he invented the Möbius strip at about the same time that August Ferdinand Möbius did.

Nationality

German

History

• Born: July 25, 1808, Frankfurt, Germany
• Died: December 24, 1882, Göttingen, Germany

Theorems and Definitions

• Möbius Strip

Books and Papers

• 1834: De Superficiebus Secundi Ordinis
• 1845: Beiträge zur Physiologischen Optik
• 1847: Vorstudien zur Topologie
• 1862: Der Census raumlicher Complexe oder Verallgemeinerung des Euler'schen Satzes von den Polyedern

Also see

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Johann Benedict Listing": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive