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August Ferdinand Möbius
M.C. Escher
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German.
Was Möbius German, Italian, or European?
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An artist.
What was M.C. Escher's career: an author, an artist, a mathematician, or a physicist?
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1790. He died in 1868.
When was he born and what was his death date?
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Impossible figures like the Möbius Strip, the Klein bottle, the Devil's Pitchfork, and etcetera.
What did M.C. Escher base his drawings off of?
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His uncle. He (the uncle) was a dancing teacher and often provided for Möbius, his father, and his mother until he died in 1793.
Who influenced August Ferdinand Möbius the most during Möbius's childhood: his father, his aunt, his sister, or his mother?
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"Relativity", "Drawing Hands", and so on.
What are some famous drawings from Escher? (You only need to name one.)
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He went to the University of Leipzig, and Möbius actually first studied law because his relatives both expected him to and pressured him to do it as well. Unfortunately, he did not enjoy it, so, he switched to mathematics, physics, and astronomy.
What university did Möbius attend, and what did he originally study?
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"Ant". In this drawing, the ants are walking around on a Möbius Strip.
In which drawing does M.C. Escher include the Möbius Strip?
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Möbius function of combinatorics, the Möbius inversion formula and Möbius transform in number theory, the Möbius transformation used in projective geometry, and the Möbius Strip.
What other discoveries did he make? (You only need to name one besides the Möbius Strip.)
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No.
Is his drawing, "The Flights of the Swans", based off of a Möbius Strip?