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For a coherent synopsis of the lives and publications of Bolyai and Lobachevsky, see this.
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He, Gauss and Janos Bolyai independently published works on geometries in which the Euclidian parallel postulate wasfalse.
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For a coherent synopsis of the lives and publications of Bolyai and Lobachevsky, see this.
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But Bolyai and Lobachevsky were able to accomplish this last feat (on a curved surface) in the nineteenth century, and they were not even approximately gods.
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The great mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss read the appendix and revealed to Bolyai that he had worked out the same results some time earlier.
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Hey Clark, yes to Gauss and gaussian coordinates, not forgetting, Saccheri, Bolyai and Lobschevasky along this lineage of geometers.
The Greatest Physics Paper! cjohnson 2005
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To Bolyai, he would write: It is true that in my life I have won much that the world honors.
Euclid’s Window Leonard Mlodinow 2001
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Neither Gauss nor Lobachevsky nor Bolyai discovered any simple way of visualizing this new type of space.
Euclid’s Window Leonard Mlodinow 2001
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Bolyai answered that Carl was destined to become the greatest mathematician in Europe.
Euclid’s Window Leonard Mlodinow 2001
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Both Wolfgang Bolyai and Bartels had had a long interest in non-Euclidean space, and had engaged Gauss in a discussion of his ideas.
Euclid’s Window Leonard Mlodinow 2001
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