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Johann Benedict Listing
Johann Benedict Listing was a German mathematician and physicist. He is remembered as a pioneer of topology, which also takes its name from his work.
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science · German mathematician (1808–1882) · mathematician · topologist · physicist · university teacher · naturalist · also Johann Benedict Listing, Johann Listing, Listing
Born 25 July 1808 · Died 24 December 1882 · Q62313
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1882· 1 entry
Died 1882-12-24.
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1872· 1 entry
The term "geoid" for the idealized geometric surface of the figure of the Earth, as previously conceptualized by his doctoral adviser, Gauss
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1861· 1 entry
And became an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1879
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1858· 1 entry
And went further in exploring the properties of strips with higher-order twists (paradromic rings)
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1847· 1 entry
Published Vorstudien zur Topologie (Preliminary Studies in Topology), although he had already used the term “topology” in letters a decade earlier
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1839· 2 entries
Awarded honorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (1839).
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Was appointed professor of physics as the successor to Wilhelm Eduard Weber, and in 1849 he became professor of mathematics in Göttingen
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1837· 1 entry
Listing became a teacher of machine drawing, machine theory, and applied mathematics at the Höhere Gewerbeschule in Hanover
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1834· 2 entries
Received his doctorate under Carl Friedrich Gauss
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Studied at University of Göttingen (1830–1834).
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1825· 1 entry
Studied at Musterschule (1816–1825).
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1808· 1 entry
Born 1808-07-25.
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