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August Ferdinand Mobius was born on November 17, 1790 in , Germany, . Mobius is a famous German mathematician and astronomer. He is considered the pioneer of topology. His main achievement lies in the discovery of a peculiar two-dimensional in the three-dimensional Euclidean space. One-sided ring structure-Mobius belt. In addition, he also discovered the introduction of homogeneous coordinate system in projective geometry, Mobius transformation, Mobius transformation in number theory, Mobius function, Mobius inversion formula, etc., representative works include "Calculation of Center of Gravity" and so on.

Mobius was born in a family of teachers. In the early stage, he was mainly engaged in legal research, and later turned to study mathematics. From 1809 to 1814 he studied mathematics at Leipzig University and received a doctorate. After graduating, he stayed on to teach at the school as an astronomy teacher. He was qualified as a professor in 1815, and a year later, under the recommendation of Gauss, he became a super professor and an observer at the Leipzig Observatory. In 1846 he became one of the founding members of the Royal Saxon Academy of Sciences. In 1848 he became the director of the Leipzig Observatory and died on September 26, 1868 in Leipzig