• Thumbnail for Oswald Veblen
    Oswald Veblen (June 24, 1880 – August 10, 1960) was an American mathematician, geometer and topologist, whose work found application in atomic physics...
    14 KB (1,196 words) - 11:29, 18 July 2024
  • The Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry is an award granted by the American Mathematical Society for notable research in geometry or topology. It was funded...
    15 KB (1,886 words) - 07:10, 3 January 2025
  • Veblen may refer to: Thorstein Veblen (1857–1929), American economist and sociologist Thomas T. Veblen (born 1947), American forester Oswald Veblen (1880–1960)...
    431 bytes (81 words) - 20:44, 4 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Simon Donaldson
    bundles and for Fano varieties." In January 2019, he was awarded the Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry (jointly with Xiuxiong Chen and Song Sun). In 2020...
    22 KB (2,039 words) - 03:09, 15 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Thorstein Veblen
    Andrew Veblen, ultimately became a professor of physics at Iowa State University and the father of one of America's leading mathematicians, Oswald Veblen of...
    60 KB (6,958 words) - 04:08, 4 January 2025
  • the Veblen functions are a hierarchy of normal functions (continuous strictly increasing functions from ordinals to ordinals), introduced by Oswald Veblen...
    16 KB (2,756 words) - 10:56, 30 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Song Sun
    California, Berkeley from 2018 until 2023. In 2019, he was awarded the Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry. As of 2024, Sun is a professor at the Institute for...
    8 KB (736 words) - 00:48, 30 November 2024
  • (1920–2007), Austrian artist Oswald Veblen (1880–1960), American mathematician Oswald von Wolkenstein (1376/7–1445), a composer Oswald West (1873–1960), American...
    3 KB (458 words) - 21:41, 5 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Jordan curve theorem
    proof was flawed and that the first rigorous proof was carried out by Oswald Veblen. However, this notion has been overturned by Thomas C. Hales and others...
    27 KB (3,351 words) - 16:53, 4 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Richard S. Hamilton
    topology. Hamilton's work on the Ricci flow was recognized with an Oswald Veblen Prize, a Clay Research Award, a Leroy P. Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution...
    37 KB (3,497 words) - 08:15, 6 January 2025
  • Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2015 and awarded the Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry in 2019. In 2019, he was awarded the Simons Investigator...
    8 KB (811 words) - 22:44, 6 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for J. H. C. Whitehead
    representation of projective spaces, was written under the direction of Oswald Veblen in 1930. While in Princeton, he also worked with Solomon Lefschetz....
    9 KB (841 words) - 14:04, 16 November 2024
  • College London. She shared the American Mathematical Society's 2025 Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry with her collaborator Richard Thomas. Feyzbakhsh research...
    7 KB (587 words) - 20:09, 31 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for E. H. Moore
    Birkhoff, Leonard Dickson, Robert Lee Moore (no relation), and Oswald Veblen. Birkhoff and Veblen went on to lead departments at Harvard and Princeton, respectively...
    8 KB (704 words) - 05:24, 4 January 2025
  • graduate work, earning a Ph.D. in mathematics in three years under Oswald Veblen. He married Mary Julia Kuczinski in 1925. The couple had three children:...
    24 KB (2,239 words) - 04:40, 30 December 2024
  • and part of an influential Princeton topology elite, which included Oswald Veblen, Solomon Lefschetz, and others. He was one of the first members of the...
    7 KB (683 words) - 12:01, 12 November 2024
  • arbitrarily large fixed points (Levy 1979: p. 117). It was first proved by Oswald Veblen in 1908. A normal function is a class function f {\displaystyle f} from...
    4 KB (647 words) - 06:27, 20 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Jim Simons
    becoming the 1976 recipient of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry. In 2014, he was elected to the U.S. National Academy...
    64 KB (5,052 words) - 02:57, 20 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Robert Lee Moore
    scholarship that would allow Robert to study for a doctorate at Chicago. Oswald Veblen supervised Moore's 1905 thesis, titled Sets of Metrical Hypotheses for...
    15 KB (1,682 words) - 09:58, 7 April 2024
  • of the market just before the Crash of 1929.) The eminent topologist Oswald Veblen at Princeton University, who had long been trying to found a high-level...
    46 KB (5,078 words) - 10:31, 14 December 2024
  • In mathematics, the Veblen–Young theorem, proved by Oswald Veblen and John Wesley Young (1908, 1910, 1917), states that a projective space of dimension...
    3 KB (387 words) - 07:27, 22 April 2021
  • In mathematics, the large Veblen ordinal is a certain large countable ordinal, named after Oswald Veblen. There is no standard notation for ordinals beyond...
    1 KB (164 words) - 22:07, 23 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dennis Sullivan
    "revival of holomorphic dynamics after 60 years of stagnation." 1971 Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry 1981 Prix Élie Cartan, French Academy of Sciences...
    23 KB (1,897 words) - 01:55, 14 September 2024
  • Mathematics at Stony Brook University. Simons in 1976 was a recipient of the Oswald Veblen Prize of the American Mathematical Society. He is known in the scientific...
    39 KB (3,776 words) - 13:31, 16 December 2024
  • Wolfram Pohlers, Kurt Schütte, Gaisi Takeuti (called ordinal diagrams), Oswald Veblen. Stephen Cole Kleene has a system of notations, called Kleene's O, which...
    16 KB (1,889 words) - 18:27, 20 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for George David Birkhoff
    idea." Summarizing Birkhoff's selection process, fellow mathematician Oswald Veblen would write: While Birkhoff was subject to as many prejudices as most...
    21 KB (2,184 words) - 02:51, 28 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for G. H. Hardy
    year 1928–1929 at Princeton University in an academic exchange with Oswald Veblen, who spent the year at Oxford. Hardy gave the Josiah Willard Gibbs lecture...
    32 KB (3,380 words) - 09:30, 26 November 2024
  • In mathematics, the small Veblen ordinal is a certain large countable ordinal, named after Oswald Veblen. It is occasionally called the Ackermann ordinal...
    3 KB (306 words) - 19:23, 22 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for John von Neumann
    were included in Chandrasekhar's other works. In earlier work led by Oswald Veblen von Neumann helped develop basic ideas involving spinors that would...
    208 KB (23,706 words) - 04:25, 29 December 2024
  • University from 2012 to 2019. In 2004, David Gabai was awarded the Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry, given every three years by the American Mathematical...
    6 KB (524 words) - 17:00, 9 November 2024