Xander du PlooyMrs. Virginia CampoGeometry HonorsApril 20, 2014The one-sided objectWhy did the chicken cross the Möbius strip? Well, of course, to get to the same side! Wait, what? Born in 1790, Augustus Ferdinand Möbius would become a great astronomer and mathematician. Not only that, but his name would be remembered throughout geometry and science as the man who discovered what is known as the Möbius Strip. He discovered the Möbius strip in September 1858 and later wrote a paper about it in 1865. Although Möbius received credit for it, the first person to actually discover this strange three-dimensional figure and have the opportunity to publish his findings was Johan Benedict. List. Listing found it in July 1858 and established this revelation to the public in 1861. Even so, the basic knowledge of this strip has records dating back to ancient times where mention of something of a similar description was made in an Alexandrian manuscript. The Möbius strip or Möbius strip is a surface with only one side and contains only one elementary boundary property. The Möbius strip has the mathematical property of not being orientable. It can also be made as a ruled surface. Furthermore, the Möbius strip is composed of several mathematical properties. If you take a strip of paper and tape its ends together, it will most likely end up becoming a belt. It would be a ring with both an inner surface and an outer surface. But what if you took the same strip of paper and twisted it in half before joining the ends together? The result would be this fascinating geometric complexity, known as the Möbius Strip. If a Möbius strip is cut lengthwise (all the way around) it will end up with a loop... in the center of the paper... of half twists is cut in half along its length, it will result in two connected strips, each with the same number of twists as the original. Möbius strips were used by engineers. Found throughout science and mathematics, the Möbius strip is used to create breakthroughs in industrial manufacturing and other fields, as well as to solve related problems. For example, some conveyor belts are made with a half twist so that belt wear is equal on both sides. The belt itself wears out only at half the rate. Similarly, loop recording tapes are made this way to double the recording surface using the same amount of tape. As can be seen, the Möbius strip is an outstanding mathematical and geometric discovery with a number of complex properties. So, once again, why did the chicken cross the Möbius Strip? To get to the same side.