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Named after August Ferdinand Möbius (1790–1868), one of two German mathematicians—the other being Johann Benedict Listing (1808–1882)—who independently discovered the strip at the same time (1858).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Möbius strip
Today it means: A one-sided surface formed by identifying two opposite edges of a square in opposite senses; Full definition →