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  2. August Ferdinand Möbius - Wikipedia

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    In 1813, he began to study astronomy under mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss at the University of Göttingen, while Gauss was the director of the Göttingen Observatory. From there, he went to study with Carl Gauss's instructor, Johann Pfaff , at the University of Halle , where he completed his doctoral thesis The occultation of fixed stars in ...

  3. Jean Giraud - Wikipedia

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    2005 saw the release of the Chinese movie Thru the Moebius Strip, based on a story by Giraud who also served as the production designer and the co-producer, and which reunited him with Arnie Wong, whereas his stint as concept designer on the 2012 animated science fiction movie Strange Frame, has become Giraud's final recorded motion picture ...

  4. Danica McKellar - Wikipedia

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    Danica Mae McKellar (born January 3, 1975) [1] is an American actress, mathematics writer, and education advocate. She is best known for playing Winnie Cooper in the television series The Wonder Years. McKellar has appeared in various television films for the Hallmark Channel.

  5. Johann Benedict Listing - Wikipedia

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    Johann Benedict Listing (25 July 1808 – 24 December 1882) was a German mathematician.. J. B. Listing was born in Frankfurt and died in Göttingen.He finished his studies at the University of Göttingen in 1834, and in 1839 he succeeded Wilhelm Weber as professor of physics.

  6. Moebius - Wikipedia

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    Mobius, also known as the Anti-Monitor, a supervillain in DC Comics; Moebius, the main antagonistic faction of Xenoblade Chronicles 3; Mobius, or Dr. Ignatio Mobius, a character in the Command & Conquer series; Moebius the Timestreamer, a character in the Legacy of Kain series; Mobius 1, the call sign of the main character of Ace Combat 04 ...

  7. Möbius function - Wikipedia

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    The Möbius function () is a multiplicative function in number theory introduced by the German mathematician August Ferdinand Möbius (also transliterated Moebius) in 1832. [i] [ii] [2] It is ubiquitous in elementary and analytic number theory and most often appears as part of its namesake the Möbius inversion formula.

  8. List of films about mathematicians - Wikipedia

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    Tall Story (1960) – A college physics and mathematics whiz is also the star basketball player, partly because he has devised equations for making baskets. A Serious Man (2009) Incendies (2010) - A graduate student ( Mélissa_Désormeaux-Poulin ), who teaches pure mathematics in Montreal, [ 6 ] travels to the Middle East in search of her ...

  9. The Man Who Knew Infinity - Wikipedia

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    At the turn of the twentieth century, Srinivasa Ramanujan is a struggling and indigent citizen in the city of Madras in India working at menial jobs at the edge of poverty. . While performing his menial labour, his employers notice that he seems to have exceptional skills in mathematics and they begin to make use of him for rudimentary accounting tas