[math-fun] Etymology of "Sudanese Möbius Band"
The Möbius band with circular boundary discussed here recently is apparently (I learned the day before yesterday) called the Sudanese Möbius band with "Sudanese" being a composite of the first names of Sue Goodman and Daniel Asimov (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B6bius_strip#M%C3%B6bius_band_with_round_... ) I was just wondering if this is the same Dan Asimov who used to post to math-fun quite often?
I do not know for certain; but it would be surprising if there were more than one contemporary topologist of that name! WFL On 4/4/20, James Buddenhagen <jbuddenh@gmail.com> wrote:
The Möbius band with circular boundary discussed here recently is apparently (I learned the day before yesterday) called the Sudanese Möbius band with "Sudanese" being a composite of the first names of Sue Goodman and Daniel Asimov (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B6bius_strip#M%C3%B6bius_band_with_round_... )
I was just wondering if this is the same Dan Asimov who used to post to math-fun quite often? _______________________________________________ math-fun mailing list math-fun@mailman.xmission.com https://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/math-fun
Same guy. Jim On Sat, Apr 4, 2020 at 5:48 PM Fred Lunnon <fred.lunnon@gmail.com> wrote:
I do not know for certain; but it would be surprising if there were more than one contemporary topologist of that name!
WFL
On 4/4/20, James Buddenhagen <jbuddenh@gmail.com> wrote:
The Möbius band with circular boundary discussed here recently is apparently (I learned the day before yesterday) called the Sudanese Möbius band with "Sudanese" being a composite of the first names of Sue Goodman and Daniel Asimov (see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B6bius_strip#M%C3%B6bius_band_with_round_...
)
I was just wondering if this is the same Dan Asimov who used to post to math-fun quite often? _______________________________________________ math-fun mailing list math-fun@mailman.xmission.com https://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/math-fun
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