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Translation of Michael Sadowsky’s Paper “An Elementary Proof for the Existence of a Developable Möbius Band and the Attribution of the Geometric Problem to a Variational Problem”

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This article is a translation of Michael Sadowsky’s original paper “Ein elementarer Beweis für die Existenz eines abwickelbaren Möbiusschen Bandes und die Zurückführung des geometrischen Problems auf ein Variationsproblem.” which appeared in Sitzungsberichte der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, physikalisch-mathematische Klasse, 17. Juli 1930.–Mitteilung vom 26. Juni, 412–415. Published on September 12, 1930.

Citations of this translation should refer also to Sadowsky’s original paper, as cited in the Abstract.

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  1. Möbius, A.F.: Ges. Werke Bd. 2 or Leipziger Berichte Über die Bestimmung des Inhaltes eines Polyeders, 484–485 (1865)

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Hinz, D.F., Fried, E. (2016). Translation of Michael Sadowsky’s Paper “An Elementary Proof for the Existence of a Developable Möbius Band and the Attribution of the Geometric Problem to a Variational Problem”. In: Fosdick, R., Fried, E. (eds) The Mechanics of Ribbons and Möbius Bands. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7300-3_2

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