János Bolyai
János Bolyai (1802 - 1860) Hungarian mathematician, son of Farkas Bolyai. In the 1820s, János studied in Vienna, where he developed a keen interest in Euclid’s parallel postulate
, to the dismay of his father. By 1832, however, Farkas acknowledged his son’s innovations in the field and published them as an appendix to his textbook. He accomplished a lot in the advancement of the study of non-Euclidean geometry. A 135 km crater on the moon is named after János Bolyai.
| Title | János Bolyai |
|---|---|
| Canonical name | JanosBolyai |
| Date of creation | 2013-03-22 16:32:45 |
| Last modified on | 2013-03-22 16:32:45 |
| Owner | Mravinci (12996) |
| Last modified by | Mravinci (12996) |
| Numerical id | 6 |
| Author | Mravinci (12996) |
| Entry type | Biography |
| Classification | msc 01A55 |
| Synonym | Janos Bolyai |
| Synonym | Bolyai János |
| Synonym | Bolyai Janos |