Möbius

[mœ-bee-uh s, mey-, moh-; German mœ-bee-oo s]

noun

Au·gust Fer·di·nand [ou-goo st fer-di-nahnt] /ˈaʊ gʊst ˈfɛr dɪˌnɑnt/, 1790–1868, German mathematician.

Also Moebius.

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Congressional reasoning at times resembles a Mobius strip of hypocrisy.
Bonfire of the Inanities
Christopher Buckley
March 22, 2009

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).