John Wesley Young
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American mathematician
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John Wesley Young's Degrees
- PhD Mathematics University of Chicago
- Masters Mathematics University of Chicago
- Bachelors Mathematics University of Texas at Austin
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Why Is John Wesley Young Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, John Wesley Young was an American mathematician who, with Oswald Veblen, introduced the axioms of projective geometry, coauthored a 2-volume work on them, and proved the Veblen–Young theorem. He was a proponent of Euclidean geometry and held it to be substantially "more convenient to employ" than non-Euclidean geometry. His lectures on algebra and geometry were compiled in 1911 and released as Lectures on Fundamental Concepts of Algebra and Geometry.
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