# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-wesley-young
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:30:44.915Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-wesley-young"
name: "John Wesley Young"
slug: "john-wesley-young"
description: "John Wesley Young was an American mathematician who, with Oswald Veblen, introduced the axioms of projective geometry, coauthored a two-volume work on them, and proved the Veblen–Young theorem. He was a proponent of Euclidean geometry and held it to be substantially \"more convenient to employ\" than non-Euclidean geometry. His lectures on algebra and geometry were compiled in 1911 and released as Lectures on Fundamental Concepts of Algebra and Geometry."
tagline: "American mathematician (1879–1932)"
gender: "male"
country:
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birthDate: "1879-11-17"
deathDate: "1932-02-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump