Editor’s Note: Published in 1957, this article comes from Martin Gardner’s legendary Scientific American column Mathematical Games. Read more in our special digital issue, Fun and Games.

Born in 1968 in communist East Germany, Moebius defied societal expectations by sketching forbidden characters like Mickey Mouse and the Terminator. His passion for figurative art was ignited upon ...

The Möbius strip, with its fascinating structure, was first discovered by August Ferdinand Möbius and Johann Benedict Listing in 1858 1. Interestingly, in his review paper on Möbius molecules ...