Bolyai, Farkas (or Wolfgang) (1775-1856) -- from Eric Weisstein's World of Scientific Biography

Branch of Science

Mathematicians

Nationality

Hungarian

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Scientific Families

Bolyai, Farkas (or Wolfgang) (1775-1856)

Hungarian mathematician who was the father of Janos Bolyai and a friend of Gauss. He published Janos's results in non-Euclidean geometry $Eric Weisstein's World of Math$ in Tentamen (1829).

Bolyai (Janos)

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