Janos Bolyai
Janos Bolyai
János Bolyaior Johann Bolyai, was a Hungarian mathematician, one of the founders of non-Euclidean geometry — a geometry that differs from Euclidean geometry in its definition of parallel lines. The discovery of a consistent alternative geometry that might correspond to the structure of the universe helped to free mathematicians to study abstract concepts irrespective of any possible connection with the physical world...
NationalityHungarian
ProfessionMathematician
Date of Birth15 December 1802
Janos Bolyai quotes about
world mathematics new-world
From nothing I have created another entirely new world.
violence conformity chimera
One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimera.
math strange wonderful
I have discovered such wonderful things that I was amazed... Out of nothing I have created a strange new universe.
mathematician universe
I have created a new universe from nothing.