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August Ferdinand Möbius (1790–1868) introduced the function which bears his name in 1831 and proved the well-known inversion formula. He was an assistant to Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855) and made important contributions in geometry and topology. The Möbius function is very important tool not only in combinatorics, but also in algebra and number theory.
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Cioabă, S.M., Murty, M.R. (2009). Möbius Inversion and Graph Colouring. In: A First Course in Graph Theory and Combinatorics. Texts and Readings in Mathematics, vol 55. Hindustan Book Agency, Gurgaon. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-93-86279-39-2_6
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