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	Oswald Veblen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Oswald Veblen (24 June 1880 - 10 August 1960) was an American mathematician who made important contributions to differential geometry and early topology, with application in atomic physics and the theory of relativity.
		Veblen was born in Decorah, Iowa, to Andrew Anderson, brother of the famed-economist-to-be Thorstein Veblen, and Kirsti (Hougen) Veblen.
		Veblen died in Brooklin, Maine in 1960 at age 80.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oswald_Veblen (418 words)

	BookRags: Oswald Veblen Biography
		Oswald Veblen is remembered mainly for his contributions to topology and differential and projective geometry, many of which scientists later found useful in atomic physics and relativity.
		Veblen was born in Decorah, Iowa on June 24, 1880, the son of Norwegian immigrants.
		Veblen's book, the first systematic coverage of the main principles of topology, was so effective in discussing the topic that several generations of mathematicians studied it intensively and considered it the premiere work on topology.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-oswald-veblen-wom (525 words)

	Veblen - The Person - Marginal Academic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Veblen attended a course in political economy with a young man, Richard T. Ely, who was to become one of the main repre- sentatives of the new reform-oriented economics.
		When Veblen returned from a trip to Europe in 1904, during which he had been accompanied by a female companion who was clearly not his wife, he was asked by the university authorities to sign a paper declaring that he would have no further relations with the woman involved.
		Although Veblen was coddled and indulged by a number of his former students now on the staff of the University of Missouri, he lacked the wider intellectual companionship he had enjoyed at Chicago and, to a degree, at Stanford.
	www2.pfeiffer.edu /~lridener/DSS/Veblen/VEBLENP3.HTML (3273 words)

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		Veblen was brought to Princeton University in 1905 by the then President of the University, Woodrow Wilson and by Dean Henry Burchard Fine, as one of the new "preceptor guys"; these were being added to increase the academic strength of Princeton.
		Veblen gave a tract of 80 acres to Mercer County, New Jersey, which is called the Herrontown Arboretum and which is intended to provide for walks in a natural wooded section of New Jersey.
		Veblen remained rather youthful in his point of view to the end, and he was often amused by the comments of younger but aging men to the effect that the great period for this or that was gone forever.
	infoshare1.princeton.edu /libraries/firestone/rbsc/finding_aids/mathoral/pmcxveblen.htm (3779 words)

	Oswald Veblen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Veblen's doctoral dissertation was entitled A System of Axioms for Geometry and he was awarded his doctorate from the University of Chicago in 1903.
		Veblen's Analysis Situs (1922) provided the first systematic coverage of the basic ideas of topology and contributed to the development of modern topology.
		W Aspray, Oswald Veblen and the origins of mathematical logic at Princeton, Perspectives on the history of mathematical logic (Boston, MA, 1991), 54-70.
	www.profcardy.com /matematicos/veblen.htm (750 words)

	Veblen, Oswald
		Veblen, Oswald (1880-1960), who played a major role in the development of Princeton and American mathematics, was the grandson of a Norwegian cabinet maker who came to Wisconsin in 1847 and took up farming.
		Oswald Veblen took an A.B. at the University of Iowa in 1898, a second A.B. at Harvard in 1900, and a Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in 1903.
		Veblen was a member of the American Philosophical Society and the National Academy of Sciences and a foreign member of the academies of science in Denmark, England, France, Ireland, Italy, Peru, Poland, and Scotland.
	etcweb.princeton.edu /CampusWWW/Companion/veblen_oswald.html (612 words)

	The Veblenite: Thorstein Veblen - biography
		Veblen leaves the University of Missouri for a (short-time) job with the Food Administration in the U.S. Government in Washington, D.C. (from 1918/2/19 to 1918/6/30).
		Veblen published his translation of the Medieval Icelandic classic, The Laxdæla Saga, (The Epic of the Salmon River Valley).
		Veblen genealogy: an account of the Norwegian ancestry of the Veblen family in America, which was founded by Thomas Anderson Veblen and his wife Kari Bunde Veblen / compiled by Andrew A. Veblen.
	de.geocities.com /veblenite/biography.htm (1894 words)

	AMS Prize - Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		This prize was established in 1961 in memory of Professor Oswald Veblen through a fund contributed by former students and colleagues.
		The fund was later doubled by the widow of Professor Veblen.
		It is awarded in recognition of a notable research memoir in geometry or topology published in the preceding six years.
	www.ams.org /prizes/veblen-prize.html (483 words)

	The Princeton Mathematics Community in the 1930s (PMC29)
		Veblen had come to Princeton from the University of Chicago in 1905, as one of the preceptors of the system that was inaugurated by Woodrow Wilson, president of Princeton at that time, in an effort to upgrade the undergraduate education at Princeton.
		Veblen encouraged him to go on here as a graduate student and supervised Church's thesis, even though the thesis was in logic rather than geometry.
		Oswald Veblen, professor; John von Neumann, professor, but on leave during the first term; Joseph H.M. Wedderburn, professor; and Eugene Wigner, professor, Now von Neumann and Wigner shared, at that time, a professorship at Princeton and an appointment in Berlin.
	libweb.princeton.edu /libraries/firestone/rbsc/finding_aids/mathoral/pmc29.htm (6494 words)

	Veblen Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Thorstein Veblen was once described by Fortune magazine as "America's most brilliant and influential critic of modern business and the values of a business civilization," and his wisdom and often dry, satiric wit continues to be obvious today.
		Veblen's evaluation of the misleading notions and erroneous beliefs were inherent in "the higher learning" was received as fair by most academics.
		Veblen's classic position on social status is intertwined with his interest in economic class and the political prospects of that class.
	aol.alibris.com /search/books/author/Veblen (663 words)

	The Emergence of Princeton as a World Center for Mathematical Research, 1896-1939 by William Aspray
		Veblen's argument began with the premise that "the surest way of promoting such research [in pure science] is to provide the opportunities for competent men to devote themselves to it" (letter to H. Thorkelson, 21 October 1925, Veblen Papers).
		Veblen rejected the idea of "distinguished service professorships," which he was skeptical in general "would be held by men of high distinction, but who often would have passed the most active stage of research" ("Institute for Mathematical Research at Princeton"; undated, unsigned proposal, Veblen Papers).
		Veblen was at the University of Chicago from 1900 to 1905, receiving his Ph.D. in 1903 under the direction of E. Moore.
	www34.homepage.villanova.edu /robert.jantzen/princeton_math/pmcxasp.htm (7746 words)

	Unexplained Mysteries :: The Philadelphia Experiment and Johnny von Neumann
		Oswald Veblen, a professor of mathematics at Princeton, brought von Neumann to the U.S. in 1930.
		From 1917 until 1919 Veblen was Major Oswald Veblen on wartime leave from Princeton working at the Aberdeen Proving Ground (Army) in Maryland.
		Veblen and Kent were intimately associated with von Neumann in 1940, but the context of their associations appears to be unrelated to the Philadelphia Experiment, NDRC or the Navy.
	www.unexplained-mysteries.com /viewcolumn.php?id=21 (1662 words)

	The Princeton Mathematics Community in the 1930s (PMC06)
		Veblen asked if it might be possible to find a place for one or more of these in Lexington.
		I hesitate to attribute views to Veblen, but the considerations that seem to have actuated him were two: a concern for the welfare of mathematics itself, and a humane concern for certain individuals who had talent.
		Veblen was a grand man, and the people for whom he made it possible to come to the United States made a great contribution to mathematics.
	infoshare1.princeton.edu /libraries/firestone/rbsc/finding_aids/mathoral/pmc06.htm (8280 words)

	Oswald Veblen, Norwegian American mathemetician
		Veblen attended school in Iowa City before entering the University of Iowa in 1894 receiving his A.B. in 1898.
		Veblen's first work on topology appeared just before he arrived in Princeton and Veblen went on to establish Princeton as one of the leading centres in the World for topology research.
		Soon after Einstein's theory of general relativity appeared Veblen turned his attention to differential geometry.
	www.mnc.net /norway/oswaldveblen.htm (601 words)

	American Mathematical Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Stanislaw Ulam got his Ph.D. in 1933 from the Polytechnic Institute in Lviv and was invited by John von Neumann to a visiting position at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton in 1936.
		Ulam writes that most mathematics positions in the US were secured through recommendations of George Birkhoff, Oswald Veblen, and Arthur Coble, who played leading roles at the American Mathematical Society in the 1920 and 30s.
		Veblen was the president of the American Mathematical Society in 1923-24 and mathematics professor at Princeton University.
	mason.gmu.edu /~ikatcha1/AMS.html (219 words)

	Abraham Taub
		At Princeton, his intellectual development was deeply affected by his association with H.P. Robertson, Oswald Veblen, and John von Neumann.
		Taub's first published paper, with Veblen in 1934, was on the projective differentiation of spinors.
		The work of Veblen and Taub was followed six months later by a paper of Taub, Veblen, and von Neumann on the Dirac equation in projective relativity.
	www.siam.org /siamnews/09-01/taub.htm (1455 words)

	Oswald, - The Oswald T. Avery Collection: Biographical Information
		In 1944, Oswald Avery and his colleagues, Colin MacLeod and Maclyn McCarty published their Oswald Avery was born in 1877 in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
		Oswald was accused of assassinating President John F. Kennedy on 22 November 1963.
		Oswald Theodore Avery was born on 21 October 1877 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Following their deaths, the then fifteen-year old Oswald assumed the paternal
	yesinter.com /ysne/oswald.htm (449 words)

	Fine, Henry Burchard
		According to Professor Veblen, his widely used textbooks, A College Algebra (1905) and Calculus (1927) were unexcelled in accuracy of statement and the adequacy with which they represented the subject.
		In the summer of 1928, he went to Europe, where he revisited old scenes and old friends, and recovered to some extent, in the distractions of travel, from the sorrows he had suffered in the recent death of his wife and the earlier deaths of two of his three children.
		Professor Veblen who talked with him soon after his return, reported later that Fine ``spoke with humorous appreciation of the change he had observed in the attitude of European mathematicians toward their American colleagues and with pride of the esteem in which he had found his own department to be held.''
	etcweb.princeton.edu /CampusWWW/Companion/fine_henry_burchard.html (1675 words)

	The Princeton Mathematics Community in the 1930s: Abstracts
		He describes the rivalry between two schools of topology: algebraic topology, as practised by Oswald Veblen at Princeton, and point-set topology, as practiced by R.L. Moore at Texas.
		Montgomery describes the atmosphere at Princeton, and Tucker and Montgomery talk at length about Oswald Veblen, who played a large role in the building up of the mathematics department at the University and the main role in the establishing of the School of Mathematics at the Institute.
		Then Tucker describes Oswald Veblen and Alonzo Church, and discusses his interest in the history of matrix algebra.
	libweb.princeton.edu /libraries/firestone/rbsc/finding_aids/mathoral/pm04.htm (4379 words)

	The Princeton Mathematics Community in the 1930s [before, during and after]: Related Documents
		Finally as a fundraiser he made an important connection that upon his accidental death in 1928 lead to the donation of funds to build a luxurious new mathematics building to facilitate research, completed in 1931 and dedicated in his honor as Fine Hall.
		Veblen was instrumental both in envisioning the Institute before the circumstances led to its creation as well as in the design of Fine Hall and in the initial selection of members for the Institute.
		Oswald Veblen and the Capitalization of American Mathematics: Raising Money for Research, 1923-1928, by Loren Bulter Feffer, ISIS 89, 474-497 (1998).
	www34.homepage.villanova.edu /robert.jantzen/princeton_math/pm06.htm (2958 words)

	NYU Today News: Courant's Cheeger receives 2001 AMS Oswald Veblen Prize
		Professor Jeff Cheeger of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University has been awarded the Oswald Veblen Prize of the American Mathematical Society for 2001.
		The Veblen Prize, which is given once every five years, is the most prestigious award in recognition of outstanding research in geometry.
		In addition, he has presented many series of endowed lectures, such as the Marston Morse Lectures at the Institute for Advanced Study in 1992, and, most recently, this year's Fermi Lectures at the Scuola Normale in Pisa, Italy.
	www.nyu.edu /nyutoday/archives/15/03/cheeger.nyu (268 words)

	American Scientist Online - The Incomplete Gödel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		A rare exception is John von Neumann (Hungary and the United States), a mathematician whose contributions to quantum mechanics, the stored-program concept for computers, and the atomic bomb resonate with many physical scientists.
		Veblen had brought Gödel to the institute after hearing him speak at Karl Menger's colloquium at the University of Vienna.
		And it was Veblen who saved the physically frail Gödel from being drafted into the Nazi army by getting him a non-quota immigrant visa so that he could leave Austria permanently for the United States.
	www.americanscientist.org /template/AssetDetail/assetid/45922;_XOwQs50cHU (1927 words)

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	Table of Contents
		This stimulating approach to several branches of modern mathematics is geared to those with no background beyond elementary algebra and geometry.
		Its nine essays by leading mathematicians—including Oswald Veblen, Gilbert Ames Bliss, L. Dickson, and David Eugene Smith—cover the foundations of geometry, modern pure geometry and non-Euclidean geometry, fundamental propositions of algebra, algebraic equations, functions, fundamentals of calculus, and number theory.
		The Foundations of Geometry by Oswald Veblen 2.
	www.doverpublications.com /cgi-bin/toc.pl/0486438163 (157 words)

	Oswald
		Oswald comes from an Old English name, Osweald, meaning “God Rule” from “os” (god) and “weald” (ruler).
		Oswald was an Old English name, popular (thanks to St. Oswald) among the Anglo-Saxons.
		Like many of its brethren, it did not long survive the Middle Ages, thanks to the Norman Invasion of 1066.
	www.geocities.com /edgarbook/names/o/oswald.html (86 words)

	Anna Stafford Henriques
		Stafford was one of two young women [Mabel Schmeiser was the other] in that first small group of mathematicians who came to the new Institute to work with its outstanding faculty: James Alexander, Albert Einstein, John von Neumann, Oswald Veblen, and Hermann Weyl.
		The article said that Veblen and Alexander were there, at the Institute.
		Except – I was going to learn." On May 4, Stafford wrote to thank Veblen for his recommendations, and to let him know that as far as her plans to come to Princeton, she had arranged to work in the mornings and come to the Institute in the afternoons.
	www.agnesscott.edu /LRIDDLE/WOMEN/stafford.htm (1438 words)

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		- Ancient Math Joke "In 1910 the mathematician Oswald Veblen and the physicist James Jeans were discussing the reform of the mathematical curriculum at Princeton University.
		`That is a subject which will never be of any use to physics.` It is not recorded whether Veblen disputed Jeans' point, or whether he argued for the retention of group theory on purely mathematical grounds.
		And Veblen's disregard for Jeans' advice continued to be of some importance to the history of science at Princeton.
	web.usna.navy.mil /~wdj/sm485_5.txt (890 words)

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