Johann Benedict Listing was a German mathematician. Listing was born in Frankfurt and died in Göttingen. In 1847, he wrote a famous article on topology, although he had introduced the term in correspondence some years earlier. He (independently) discovered the properties of the half-twisted strip at the same time as August Ferdinand Möbius, and went further in exploring the properties of strips with higher-order twists (paradromic rings). Wikipedia
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