Mathematician:August Ferdinand Möbius

Mathematician
German mathematician and theoretical astronomer, active in geometry and number theory.

Best known for inventing the Möbius Strip, although this was actually invented independently by at around the same time.

Nationality
German

History

 * Born: November 17, 1790, Schulpforta, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
 * Died: September 26, 1868, Leipzig, Germany

Theorems and Definitions

 * Möbius Configuration
 * Möbius Function
 * Möbius Inversion Formula
 * Möbius Strip
 * Möbius Transformation

Publications

 * 1815: De Computandis Occultationibus Fixarum per Planetas
 * 1827:
 * 1831: Über Eine Besondere Art von Umkehrung der Reihen
 * 1836: Die Hauptsätze der Astronomie
 * 1837: Lehrbuch der Statik
 * 1843: Die Elemente der Mechanik des Himmels