# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/august-ferdinand-mobius
# Generated: 2026-09-02T06:55:17.774Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born November 17, 1790, Möbius built his career as a theoretical astronomer and mathematician in Germany, working in fields that demanded precision over spectacle. His contributions spanned celestial mechanics and geometry, though the world would remember him most for a topological oddity: a loop with only one surface and one edge. He spent decades in academic circles, teaching and refining problems that lived at the boundary of space and abstraction. Möbius died September 26, 1868, leaving behind work that would outlive him in classrooms and thought experiments everywhere.