Möbius

[ mœ-bee-uhs, mey-, moh-; German mœ-bee-oos ]

/ ˈmœ bi əs, ˈmeɪ-, ˈmoʊ-; German ˈmœ bi ʊs /

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Au·gust Fer·di·nand

[ou-goost fer-di-nahnt], /ˈaʊ gʊst ˈfɛr dɪˌnɑnt/, 1790–1868, German mathematician.

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Although largely forgotten today, Listing is also notable for writing about the Möbius band four years before August Möbius, and for coining the very term topologie.
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One of the first big ingredients of their proof appeared in November 2019 when a Princeton graduate student named Cole Hugelmeyer posted a paper that introduced a new way of analyzing Vaughan’s Möbius strip.
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Like the Möbius strip, it only has one side, and you can actually make one by gluing together two Möbius strips.
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Well, two Möbius strips that intersect each other are equivalent to a Klein bottle, which intersects itself in this type of space.
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Congressional reasoning at times resembles a Mobius strip of hypocrisy.
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