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János Bolyai
Mathematician, Academic
1802 – 1860
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Who was János Bolyai?
János Bolyai or Johann Bolyai, was a Hungarian mathematician, one of the founders of non-Euclidean geometry — a geometry that differs from Euclidean geometry in its definition of parallel lines. The discovery of a consistent alternative geometry that might correspond to the structure of the universe helped to free mathematicians to study abstract concepts irrespective of any possible connection with the physical world.
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- Born
- Dec 15, 1802
Cluj-Napoca - Also known as
- Janos Bolyai
- Parents
- Ethnicity
- Hungarian people
- Székelys
- Nationality
- Hungary
- Austrian Empire
- Profession
- Lived in
- Cluj-Napoca
- Hungary
- Kingdom of Hungary
- Austria-Hungary
- Died
- Jan 27, 1860
Târgu Mureș
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on July 23, 2013
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