Farkas Bolyai (Hungarian: [ˈfɒrkɒʃ ˈboːjɒi]; 9 February 1775 – 20 November 1856; also known as Wolfgang Bolyai in Germany) was a Hungarian mathematician...
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Romania), the son of Zsuzsanna Benkő and the well-known mathematician Farkas Bolyai. By the age of 13, he had mastered calculus and other forms of analytical...
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In geometry, the Wallace–Bolyai–Gerwien theorem, named after William Wallace, Farkas Bolyai and P. Gerwien, is a theorem related to dissections of polygons...
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University of Szeged, named after the Hungarian mathematicians, Farkas Bolyai, and his son János Bolyai, the co-discoverer of non-Euclidean geometry. Its director...
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Farkas ("Wolf" in Hungarian) is a Hungarian surname and a given name. In Czech and Slovak languages it is rendered as Farkaš. Alexander S. Farkas, former...
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pleasure. Fellow students of this time were Johann Friedrich Benzenberg, Farkas Bolyai, and Heinrich Wilhelm Brandes. He was likely a self-taught student in...
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Gauss), Johann Tobias Mayer, Heinrich Wilhelm Brandes, Farkas Bolyai (father of János Bolyai), and Georg Klügel. Kästner died in 1800 in Göttingen. Kästner...
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scientists. Famous Hungarian mathematicians include father Farkas Bolyai and son János Bolyai, who was one of the founders of non-Euclidean geometry; Paul...
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of its development. Chicago: Open Court. In the letter to Wolfgang (Farkas) Bolyai of March 6, 1832 Gauss claims to have worked on the problem for thirty...
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Romania), the son of Zsuzsanna Benkő and the well-known mathematician Farkas Bolyai. He died in Marosvásárhely, Transylvania, Austrian Empire (now Târgu...
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Bárány Zoltán Bay George von Békésy Nobel Prize Gergely Berzeviczy Farkas Bolyai János Bolyai Imre Bródy George de Hevesy Loránd Eötvös Paul Erdős Madeleine...
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(1737–1817) Sámuel Teleki (1739–1832) Gheorghe Șincai (1754–1816) Farkas Bolyai (1775–1856) János Bolyai (1802–1860) Avram Iancu (1824–1872) Alexandru Papiu Ilarian...
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publish any of his results. Upon hearing of Bolyai's results in a letter from Bolyai's father, Farkas Bolyai, Gauss stated: If I commenced by saying that...
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The János Bolyai Mathematical Society (Bolyai János Matematikai Társulat, BJMT) is the Hungarian mathematical society, named after János Bolyai, a 19th-century...
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and politician, 9th President of the United States (d. 1841) 1775 – Farkas Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician and academic (d. 1856) 1781 – Johann Baptist...
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liberties. Transylvanian culture flourished in the early 19th century. Farkas Bolyai improved the teaching of natural sciences at the college of Marosvásárhely...
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Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and the 2000 winner of the Academy's Farkas Bolyai Award. Agnes Szendrei, University of Colorado Boulder, 29 September...
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Roma, and 1% were Germans (more specifically Transylvanian Saxons). Farkas Bolyai (1775–1856), mathematician Cornel Oțelea (born 1940), handball player...
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1733) Every triangle can be circumscribed. (Adrien-Marie Legendre, Farkas Bolyai, early 19th century) If three angles of a quadrilateral are right angles...
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Sumatra. probable date – Paul Gerwien proves the Bolyai–Gerwien theorem formulated by Farkas Bolyai: that any two simple polygons of equal area are equidecomposable...
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Csorvássy [ro]; demolished in 1962) Farkas Bolyai and János Bolyai (also known as the Two Bolyais Statue), in front of the Farkas Bolyai Theoretical High School [ro]...
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ISBN 978-1-84724-008-8. As an appendix to a mathematics textbook by his father, Farkas Bolyai, published in Maros Vásárhelyini. "'Slum Saint' honoured with statue"...
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born in Marosvásárhely, the town of the famous mathematicians Farkas Bolyai and János Bolyai. He attended the Reformed College in Marosvásárhely . After...
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the manner of violets coming to light in early spring." — Farkas Bolyai to his son János Bolyai, urging him to claim the invention of non-Euclidean geometry...
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1726) 1824 – Carl Axel Arrhenius, Swedish chemist (b. 1757) 1856 – Farkas Bolyai, Romanian-Hungarian mathematician and academic (b. 1775) 1864 – Albert...
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Péter Bod (1712 – 1768), theologian and historian Farkas Bolyai (1775 – 1856), mathematician János Bolyai (1802 – 1860), mathematician who developed absolute...
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to 2019. Gergely Farkas was born in Kecel on 3 November 1986. He is Roman Catholic. He finished his secondary studies at the Bolyai János Secondary Grammar...
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Liddell, 1st Baron Ravensworth, British politician (d. 1855) February 9 Farkas Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1856) Theodor Hell, pseudonym of Karl Gottfried...
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(Capitoline Wolf) Emil Dandea Statue (Emil Dandea) Bolyai Farkas and János Statue (Farkas Bolyai and János Bolyai) Aurel Filimon Statue (Aurel Filimon) Holocaust...
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Liddell, 1st Baron Ravensworth, British politician (d. 1855) February 9 Farkas Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1856) Theodor Hell, pseudonym of Karl Gottfried...
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