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| − | '''János Bólyai''' was a [[Hungarian]] [[mathematician]] | + | '''János Bólyai''' (1802-1860) was a [[Hungarian]] [[mathematician]]. He was the son of Farkas Bolyai, another mathematician, who was a friend and colleague of the great [[German]] mathematician [[Carl Friedrich Gauss]]. János Bólyai invented non-Euclidean [[geometry]] at the same time as and independently of his rival, the [[Russian]] mathematician and [[astronomer]] Nikolai Lobachevsky. Non-Euclidean geometry is a form of geometry which differs from traditional Euclidean geometry in that it rejects Euclidean geometry's fifth postulate that parallel lines can never intersect. |
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Revision as of 03:37, November 15, 2008
János Bólyai (1802-1860) was a Hungarian mathematician. He was the son of Farkas Bolyai, another mathematician, who was a friend and colleague of the great German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss. János Bólyai invented non-Euclidean geometry at the same time as and independently of his rival, the Russian mathematician and astronomer Nikolai Lobachevsky. Non-Euclidean geometry is a form of geometry which differs from traditional Euclidean geometry in that it rejects Euclidean geometry's fifth postulate that parallel lines can never intersect.