Bolyai

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.

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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

Neither Gauss nor Lobachevsky nor Bolyai discovered any simple way of visualizing this new type of space.

Euclid’s Window Leonard Mlodinow 2001

Bolyai answered that Carl was destined to become the greatest mathematician in Europe.

Euclid’s Window Leonard Mlodinow 2001

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