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THE MOBIUS STRIP: Dr. August Mobius's Marvelous Band in Mathematics, Games, Literature, Art, Technology, and Cosmology
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The Mobius band is a puzzlingly twisted strip of paper joined at the ends with, remarkably, only one side. It was discovered separately in 1858 by German mathematicians August Ferdinand M?bius and Johann Benedict Listing. As Pickover (Calculus and Pizza), a prolific science author and former Discover columnist, tells us, today M?bius's strip is everywhere: it forms the familiar recycling symbol; freestyle skiers attempt a stunt called a "M?bius flip"; and it appears in the works of artists like M.C. Escher and writers like Arthur C. Clarke. Pickover uses the strip as a jumping-off point for a wide-ranging exploration of objects that are "chiral" (objects that are mirror images yet cannot be superimposed on each other) or have unusual properties of continuity.
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Author Name : Clifford Pickover Book Type : PaperBack
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No of Page : 244 Publisher : Thunder's Mouth Press
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ISBN : 9780739475423
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