Möbius, August Ferdinand (1790-1868)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 3870. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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Mathematician, born in Schulpforta, Saxony (now Germany), studied astronomy under GAUSS, and wrote his doctoral thesis on `The occultation of fixed stars by planets'. Became professor of astronomy at Leipzig, rebuilt its observatory, and wrote on astronomy and celestial mechanics, this work being overshadowed by his imaginative mathematical work on mapmaking and analytical geometry (eponymous mat...

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