August Ferdinand Möbius (17 November 1790 to 26 September 1868) was a German mathematician and theoretical astronomer. Born in Schulpforta, he studied at the University of Leipzig and under Carl Friedrich Gauss at Göttingen, completed his doctoral thesis on the occultation of fixed stars at Halle in 1815, and in 1816 became extraordinary professor of astronomy and higher mechanics at Leipzig, where he died. He is best known for his discovery of the Möbius strip, a non-orientable surface with only one side, and was the first to introduce homogeneous coordinates into projective geometry. The Möbius function and Möbius inversion formula of number theory are also named after him.
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He was home-schooled until he was 13, when he attended the college in Schulpforta in 1803, and studied there, graduating in 1809.
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17 November 1790
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MÖbius is now most frequently remembered for his discovery of the one-sided surface called the Möbius strip, which is formed by taking a rectangular strip of paper and connecting its ends after giving it a half twist ( Werke, II, 484-485).
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His 1855 “Theorie der Kreisverwandschaft in rein geometrischer Darstellung” is the culmination of a number of studies on circular transformations, which are now frequently called Möbius transformations.
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doctorate in mathematics at the University of Leipzig under August Ferdinand Möbius
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The discovery of the Möbius strip as a mathematical object is attributed independently to the German mathematicians Johann Benedict Listing and August Ferdinand Möbius in 1858.
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is a multiplicative function in number theory introduced by the German mathematician August Ferdinand Möbius (also transliterated Moebius) in 1832.
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Möbius transformations are named in honor of August Ferdinand Möbius; they are an example of homographies, linear fractional transformations, bilinear transformations, and spin transformations (in relativity theory).
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