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- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 24 June 1880
- Died
- 10 August 1960
- Place of birth
- Decorah
- Place of death
- Brooklin
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Oswald
- Family name
- Veblen
- Father
- Andrew Anderson Veblen
- Field of work
- geometry, topology, mathematics
- Occupation
- mathematician, topologist, university teacher
- Citizenship
- United States
- Awards
- Order of St. Olav, honorary doctorate of the University of Oslo, Honorary doctor of the University of Oxford, honorary doctor of the University of Edinburgh, honorary doctorate of the University of Glasgow
- academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy, Doctor of Science
- academic thesis
- A System of Axioms for Geometry
- archives at
- ETH Zurich University Archives
- contributed to creative work
- Popular Science
- doctoral advisor
- Eliakim Hastings Moore
- doctoral student
- Harold Hotelling, Alonzo Church, James Waddell Alexander II, Henry Roy Brahana, Philip Franklin, Wallace Givens, Howard Hawks Mitchell, Robert Lee Moore, Tracy Yerkes Thomas, J. H. C. Whitehead, John Livezey Vanderslice, Ulysses Grant Mitchell
- educated at
- Harvard University, University of Chicago, University of Iowa
- member of
- National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Royal Society of Edinburgh, Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony, American Philosophical Society, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- name in native language
- Oswald Veblen
- notable work
- Veblen–Young theorem, Veblen-Young axiom
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