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August Ferdinand Möbius

1790 - 1868

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August Ferdinand Möbius (UK: , US: ; German: [ˈmøːbi̯ʊs]; 17 November 1790 – 26 September 1868) was a German mathematician and theoretical astronomer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of August Ferdinand Möbius has received more than 361,229 page views. His biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). August Ferdinand Möbius is the 61st most popular mathematician (up from 68th in 2019), the 327th most popular biography from Germany (up from 333rd in 2019) and the 8th most popular German Mathematician.

August Ferdinand Möbius (1790-1868) was a German mathematician and astronomer. He is most famous for his discovery of the Möbius strip, a two-dimensional surface with only one side and one boundary.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, August Ferdinand Möbius ranks 61 out of 823. Before him are Gaspard Monge, Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani, Abraham de Moivre, Brahmagupta, Al-Battani, and Marin Mersenne. After him are Simon Stevin, Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia, Alfred North Whitehead, Ludolph van Ceulen, Hermann Minkowski, and Jacob Bernoulli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1790, August Ferdinand Möbius ranks 5. Before him are Jean-François Champollion, Leopold I of Belgium, Sunjo of Joseon, and George Everest. After him are John Tyler, Alphonse de Lamartine, Jules Dumont d'Urville, Nicolas Chauvin, John Frederic Daniell, Leopold, Grand Duke of Baden, and Robert Stirling. Among people deceased in 1868, August Ferdinand Möbius ranks 4. Before him are Gioachino Rossini, Léon Foucault, and James Buchanan. After him are Ludwig I of Bavaria, Mongkut, William T. G. Morton, August Schleicher, Alexandre Colonna-Walewski, David Brewster, Mihailo Obrenović, and James Brooke.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, August Ferdinand Möbius ranks 327 out of 6,142. Before him are Simone Signoret (1921), Hermann Fegelein (1906), Baldur von Schirach (1907), Friedrich Carl von Savigny (1779), Maximilian II of Bavaria (1811), and August von Mackensen (1849). After him are Emil Kraepelin (1856), Otto Heinrich Warburg (1883), James Franck (1882), Karl Haushofer (1869), Valdemar I of Denmark (1131), and Otto Frank (1889).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, August Ferdinand Möbius ranks 8. Before him are Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646), Bernhard Riemann (1826), Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (1805), Gottlob Frege (1848), Emmy Noether (1882), and Karl Weierstrass (1815). After him are Ludolph van Ceulen (1540), Richard Dedekind (1831), Regiomontanus (1436), Alexander Grothendieck (1928), Friedrich Bessel (1784), and Felix Klein (1849).

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