Johann Benedict Listing, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Johann Benedict Listing

German mathematician

Date of Birth: 25-Jul-1808

Place of Birth: Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany

Date of Death: 24-Dec-1882

Profession: physicist, mathematician, university teacher, topologist

Nationality: Germany, German Empire

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Johann Benedict Listing

  • Johann Benedict Listing (25 July 1808 – 24 December 1882) was a German mathematician. J.
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  • Listing was born in Frankfurt and died in Göttingen.
  • He first introduced the term "topology", in a famous article published in 1847, although he had used the term in correspondence some years earlier.
  • He (independently) discovered the properties of the half-twisted strip at the same time (1858) as August Ferdinand Möbius, and went further in exploring the properties of strips with higher-order twists (paradromic rings).
  • He discovered topological invariants which came to be called Listing numbers.In ophthalmology, Listing's law describes an essential element of extraocular eye muscle coordination.

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