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Johann Benedict Listing

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Johann Benedict Listing (July 25, 1808 – December 24 1882) was a German mathematician.

Listing was born in Frankfurt and died in Göttingen. 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 at the same time as August Ferdinand Möbius, and went further in exploring the properties of strips with higher-order twists (paradromic rings).

  • O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Johann Benedict Listing", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
  • A reprint of (part of) his famous 1847 article introducing Topology, published in Vorstudien zur Topologie, Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, Göttingen, pp. 67, 1848.
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