Background
J. B. Listing was born in Frankfurt and died in Göttingen.
mathematician physicist university professor
J. B. Listing was born in Frankfurt and died in Göttingen.
University of Göttingen.
He first introduced the term "topology", in a famous article published in 1847, although he had used 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). He discovered topological invariants which came to be called Listing numbers.
In ophthalmology, Listing"s law describes an essential element of extraocular eye muscle coordination.
Göttingen Academy of Sciences.