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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 385,857 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). August Ferdinand Möbius is the 60th most popular mathematician (up from 61st in 2019), the 312th most popular biography from Germany (up from 327th 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 60 out of 1,004. Before him are Marin Mersenne, Norbert Wiener, Claude Shannon, Gaspard Monge, Al-Battani, and Émilie du Châtelet. After him are Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani, Hermann Minkowski, Bhāskara II, Urbain Le Verrier, Simon Stevin, and Friedrich Bessel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1790, August Ferdinand Möbius ranks 3. Before him are Jean-François Champollion, and Leopold I of Belgium. After him are Alphonse de Lamartine, Sunjo of Joseon, John Tyler, George Everest, Jules Dumont d'Urville, Nicolas Chauvin, John Frederic Daniell, Leopold, Grand Duke of Baden, and John Austin. 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, August Schleicher, Alexandre Colonna-Walewski, Okita Sōji, William T. G. Morton, Mihailo Obrenović, and David Brewster.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, August Ferdinand Möbius ranks 312 out of 7,253. Before him are Baldur von Schirach (1907), Henry the Lion (1129), Christian III of Denmark (1503), Hans von Aachen (1552), Karen Horney (1885), and Carl Bosch (1874). After him are Theodor Heuss (1884), Julius Streicher (1885), Georgy Lvov (1861), Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist (1881), Johann Friedrich Struensee (1737), and Joseph Beuys (1921).

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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), Emmy Noether (1882), Gottlob Frege (1848), and Karl Weierstrass (1815). After him are Friedrich Bessel (1784), Ludolph van Ceulen (1540), Richard Dedekind (1831), Alexander Grothendieck (1928), Regiomontanus (1436), and Felix Klein (1849).

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