Oswald Veblen, American mathematician and academic (g. 1960)

Oswald Veblen

American mathematician (1880–1960)

Oswald Veblen was an American mathematician, geometer and topologist, whose work found application in atomic physics and the theory of relativity. He proved the Jordan curve theorem in 1905; while this was long considered the first rigorous proof of the theorem, many now also…