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August Ferdinand Möbius

Biography MathSciNet

Ph.D. Universität Leipzig 1815

Dissertation: De computandis occultationibus fixarum per planetas

Advisor: Johann Friedrich Pfaff

Students:
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Name	School	Year	Descendants
Otto Fiedler	Universität Leipzig	1858	3658
Hermann Hankel	Universität Leipzig	1861
Rudolf Sonndorfer	Universität Leipzig	1863
Otto von Littrow	Universität Leipzig	1842
Ferdinand Werner	Universität Leipzig	1854

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