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Bolyai

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[baw-lyoi] / ˈbɔ lyɔɪ /

noun

  1. János 1802–60, Hungarian mathematician.


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In Russia, Nikolai Lobachevsky, and in Hungary János Bolyai, were also exploring the geometries of curved space.

From Forbes • May 13, 2015

Apparently straight parallel lines drawn upon it would then diverge, as supposed by Bolyai.

From Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science by Newcomb, Simon

This was done by Lobatchewsky and Bolyai, the one a Russian the other a Hungarian geometer, about 1830.

From Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science by Newcomb, Simon

All these results agree with those of Lobatchewsky and Bolyai.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various

In 1832-33, similar results were attained by Johann Bolyai in an appendix to his father's "Tentamen juventutem studiosam in elementa matheseosos puræ ... introducendi" entitled "The Science of Absolute Space."

From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Bode, Boyd H.

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