The native form of this personal name is Bolyai Farkas. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.
Farkas Bolyai
Farkas Bolyai
Born
(1775-02-09)9 February 1775
Bolya, Grand Principality of Transylvania (now Buia as part of Șeica Mare, Romania)
Died
20 November 1856(1856-11-20) (aged 81)
Neumarkt am Mieresch, Grand Principality of Transylvania, Austrian Empire (now Târgu Mureş, Romania)
Nationality
Hungarian
Alma mater
University of Jena University of Göttingen
Known for
Contributions to the foundations of geometry Wallace–Bolyai–Gerwien theorem
Scientific career
Fields
Mathematics
Academic advisors
Abraham Gotthelf Kästner
Notable students
János Bolyai
Farkas Bolyai (Hungarian:[ˈfɒrkɒʃˈboːjɒi]; 9 February 1775 – 20 November 1856; also known as Wolfgang Bolyai in Germany) was a Hungarian mathematician, mainly known for his work in geometry.
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pleasure. Fellow students of this time were Johann Friedrich Benzenberg, FarkasBolyai, and Heinrich Wilhelm Brandes. Though being a registered student at...
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scientists. Famous Hungarian mathematicians include father FarkasBolyai and son János Bolyai, who was one of the founders of non-Euclidean geometry; Paul...
publish any of his results. Upon hearing of Bolyai's results in a letter from Bolyai's father, FarkasBolyai, Gauss stated: If I commenced by saying that...
and politician, 9th President of the United States (d. 1841) 1775 – FarkasBolyai, Hungarian mathematician and academic (d. 1856) 1781 – Johann Baptist...
Sumatra. probable date – Paul Gerwien proves the Bolyai–Gerwien theorem formulated by FarkasBolyai: that any two simple polygons of equal area are equidecomposable...
1733) Every triangle can be circumscribed. (Adrien-Marie Legendre, FarkasBolyai, early 19th century) If three angles of a quadrilateral are right angles...
ISBN 978-1-84724-008-8. As an appendix to a mathematics textbook by his father, FarkasBolyai, published in Maros Vásárhelyini. "'Slum Saint' honoured with statue"...
Liddell, 1st Baron Ravensworth, British politician (d. 1855) February 9 FarkasBolyai, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1856) Theodor Hell, pseudonym of Karl Gottfried...
the manner of violets coming to light in early spring." — FarkasBolyai to his son János Bolyai, urging him to claim the invention of non-Euclidean geometry...
Yarrell (born 1784), English zoologist and bookseller. November 20 – FarkasBolyai (born 1775), Hungarian mathematician. November 21 – James Meadows Rendel...
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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