Mathematician:János Bolyai

Mathematician

Hungarian mathematician who was one of the founders of non-Euclidean geometry.

Son of Farkas Wolfgang Bolyai.

Nationality

Hungarian

History

• Born: 15 December 1802 in Kolozsvár, Hungary (now Cluj, Romania)
• Died: 27 January 1860 in Marosvásárhely, Hungary (now Târgu-Mureş, Romania)

Theorems and Definitions

• Gauss-Bolyai-Lobachevsky Space (independently of Carl Friedrich Gauss and Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky)

Definitions of concepts named for János Bolyai can be found here.

Publications

• 1832: Appendix to Tentamen by Farkas Wolfgang Bolyai

Also known as

His name is often seen rendered as Johann Bolyai.

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "János Bolyai": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive

• 1991: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Geometry ... (previous) ... (next): A Chronological List Of Mathematicians
• 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Bolyai, János (1802-60)
• 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Bolyai, János (1802-60)
• 2014: Christopher Clapham and James Nicholson: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (5th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Bolyai, János (1802-60)