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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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Definitions of Mobius from WordNet

Mobius (n.)
German mathematician responsible for the Mobius strip (1790-1868);
Synonyms: August F. Mobius / August Ferdinand Mobius
From wordnet.princeton.edu