Johann Benedict Listing (born July 25, 1808, died December 24 1882) was a German mathematician, born in Frankfurt, Germany, and died in Göttingen, Germany.

In 1847, he wrote a famous article on Topology, although he had introduced the term in correspondence some years earlier. He (independently) discovered the properties of the half-twisted strip that now bears Möbius' name at the same time as Möbius, and went further in exploring the properties of strips with higher-order twists (paradromic rings).

External links

• A reprint of (part of) his famous 1847 article introducing Topology, published in Vorstudien zur Topologie, Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, Göttingen, pp. 67, 1848.

German mathematicians | 19th century mathematicians | 1808 births | 1882 deaths

Johann Benedict Listing