John Wesley Young
John Wesley Young ( born November 17, 1879 in Columbus, Ohio, † February 17, 1932 in Hanover, New Hampshire ) was an American mathematician.
Young studied at Ohio State University mathematics and philosophy with a bachelor's degree in 1899 and from Cornell University mathematics with the master's degree at George Abram Miller in 1901 and his doctorate in 1904. He was at Northwestern University Princeton University, the University of Illinois, the University of Kansas and the University of Chicago before he became in 1911 a professor at Dartmouth College. Young ran from 1911 to 1919 and from 1923 to 1925, the mathematics faculty.
He dealt with geometry and group theory. With Oswald Veblen, he wrote a book on projective geometry and developed a system of axioms for projective geometry. In addition, he was co -author and editor of several mathematics textbooks. According to him, Veblen and the Axiom of Veblen -Young is named and the set of Veblen and Young in projective geometry.
1929 to 1930 he was president of the Mathematical Association of America, whose founding member he was. He was co-editor of the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society.
He was the brother of Eliakim Hastings Moore.
Writings
- Geometry with Veblen Projective, 2 volumes, Ginn and Co., Boston and London, 1910, 1918
- With Schwartz Solid Geometry, Holt, 1925
- Lectures on fundamental concepts of algebra and geometry, Macmillan 1911
- With Frank Morgan Elementary mathematical analysis, Macmillan 1917
- With Fort Morgan Analytical geometry, Houghton Mifflin 1936