Bolyai
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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
The work of Gauss, Lobatschewski, Bolyai, Lambert, would make the answer negative.
From Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students by Gross, Hans Gustav Adolf
The only other writer of importance in the second period is Eugenio Beltrami, by whom Riemann’s work was brought into connexion with that of Lobatchewsky and Bolyai.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various
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
J. Bolyai discovered non-Euclidean geometry apparently in independence of Lobatchewsky.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various
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