John Wesley Young

John Wesley Young (November 17, 1879, Columbus, Ohio, to February 17, 1932, Hanover, New Hampshire) 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.

Publications

• Projective geometry with Oswald Veblen, Ginn and co., 1910–1918^[1][2][3]
• Projective Geometry. No. 4 of Carus Mathematical Monographs. Chicago: Open Court. 1930.^[4]

References

1. Coolidge, Julian Lowell (1911). "Review: Projective Geometry by Oswald Veblen and John Wesley Young. Vol. I" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 18 (2): 70–81. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1911-02156-5.
2. Moore, R. L. (1920). "Review: Projective Geometry by Oswald Veblen and John Wesley Young. Vol. II" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 26 (9): 412–425. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1920-03332-x.
3. G. B. Mathews(1911) Review:Projective Geometry from Nature 86:207,8 (#2163)
4. Carver, W. B. (1930). "Review: Projective Geometry by J. W. Young" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 37 (7): 499–500. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1931-05167-3.

• Beetle, R. D.; Wilder, C. E. (1932), "John Wesley Young - In memoriam", Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society 38 (9): 603–610, doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1932-05469-6, ISSN 0002-9904
• "John Wesley Young", The American Mathematical Monthly 39 (6), 1932: 309–314, doi:10.2307/2300750, ISSN 0002-9890
• John Wesley Young at MAA website