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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

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. August Ferdinand Möbius is the 53rd most popular mathematician (up from 60th in 2019), the 258th most popular biography from Germany (up from 312th in 2019) and the 7th 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 53 out of 1,004. Before him are Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia, Urbain Le Verrier, Emmy Noether, George Boole, Abraham de Moivre, and Archytas. After him are Josef Stefan, Sophie Germain, Friedrich Bessel, Charles Sanders Peirce, Philolaus, and Karl Weierstrass.

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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, John Tyler, Sunjo of Joseon, George Everest, Jules Dumont d'Urville, John Frederic Daniell, William Parry, Nicolas Chauvin, and Gideon Mantell. 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, Tewodros II, August Schleicher, David Brewster, Alexandre Colonna-Walewski, William T. G. Morton, and Franz Berwald.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, August Ferdinand Möbius ranks 258 out of 7,253. Before him are Justus von Liebig (1803), Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717), Heinrich Schütz (1585), Jacob Grimm (1785), Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor (1282), and Werner von Siemens (1816). After him are Helmuth von Moltke the Elder (1800), Anne of Cleves (1515), Hans Holbein the Younger (1497), Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1838), Ludwig Erhard (1897), and Konstantin von Neurath (1873).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, August Ferdinand Möbius ranks 7. Before him are Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646), Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777), Bernhard Riemann (1826), Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (1805), Gottlob Frege (1848), and Emmy Noether (1882). After him are Friedrich Bessel (1784), Karl Weierstrass (1815), Ludolph van Ceulen (1540), Richard Dedekind (1831), Regiomontanus (1436), and Alexander Grothendieck (1928).

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