Möbius
[mœ-bee-uh s, mey-, moh-; German mœ-bee-oo s]
- Au·gust Fer·di·nand [ou-goo st fer-di-nahnt] /ˈaʊ gʊst ˈfɛr dɪˌnɑnt/, 1790–1868, German mathematician.
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Congressional reasoning at times resembles a Mobius strip of hypocrisy.
Word Origin and History for mobius
Mobius
also Moebius, 1904 in reference to the Mobius strip (earlier Moebius unilateral paper strip, 1899), named for German mathematician August Ferdinand Möbius (1790-1868), professor at Leipzig, who devised it and described it in 1865 ("über die Bestimmung des Inhalts eines Polyeders", Nov. 27, 1865).
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