August Ferdinand Möbius Biography

August Ferdinand Möbius biography

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NAME: August Ferdinand Möbius
OCCUPATION: Mathematician
BIRTH DATE: November 17, 1790
DEATH DATE: September 26, 1868
EDUCATION: University of Leipzig
PLACE OF BIRTH: Schulpforta, Germany
PLACE OF DEATH: Leipzig, Germany

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German mathematician August Ferdinand Möbius was the brains behind the Möbius strip and other innovations in Euclidean geometry.

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German mathematician August Ferdinand Möbius was born on November 17, 1790. While teaching at the University of Leipzig, he introduced homogeneous coordinates into analytic geometry and dealt with geometric transformations, in particular projective transformations. He is known for the famous Möbius strip and other innovations in Euclidean geometry and number theory.