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Farkas Bolyai

1775 - 1856

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Farkas Bolyai (Hungarian: [ˈfɒrkɒʃ ˈboːjɒi]; 9 February 1775 – 20 November 1856; also known as Wolfgang Bolyai in Germany) was a Hungarian mathematician, mainly known for his work in geometry. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Farkas Bolyai has received more than 77,965 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Farkas Bolyai is the 238th most popular mathematician (up from 245th in 2019), the 97th most popular biography from Romania (up from 103rd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Romanian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Farkas Bolyai ranks 238 out of 1,004. Before him are Joseph Petzval, Seymour Papert, Gilles de Roberval, Nikolay Bogolyubov, Eduard Heine, and Isaac Beeckman. After him are Johannes de Sacrobosco, Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Seki Takakazu, Robert Recorde, John Charles Fields, and Joseph Bertrand.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1775, Farkas Bolyai ranks 18. Before him are Georg Friedrich Grotefend, Ching Shih, François-Adrien Boieldieu, Étienne-Louis Malus, Matthew Lewis, and Antoine Charles Louis de Lasalle. After him are Teréz Brunszvik, Camillo Borghese, 6th Prince of Sulmona, Bernhard Crusell, Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger, Manuel García, and Conrad Malte-Brun. Among people deceased in 1856, Farkas Bolyai ranks 13. Before him are Paul Delaroche, Ivan Paskevich, Étienne Cabet, Ľudovít Štúr, 11th Dalai Lama, and Théodore Chassériau. After him are Manuela Sáenz, Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall, Florestan I, Prince of Monaco, Princess Elisabeth of Savoy, David d'Angers, and Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Farkas Bolyai ranks 97 out of 844. Before him are Princess Ileana of Romania (1909), Vladimir Cosma (1940), Fritz Klein (1888), Károly Kerényi (1897), László Bölöni (1953), and Rezső Kasztner (1906). After him are Ben Ferencz (1920), Aureolus (220), Ion Gheorghe Maurer (1902), Christopher Báthory (1530), Ion Luca Caragiale (1852), and Mundzuk (368).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Romania

Among mathematicians born in Romania, Farkas Bolyai ranks 3. Before him are János Bolyai (1802), and Zoia Ceaușescu (1949). After him are Abraham Wald (1902), Ion Ghica (1816), Ion Barbu (1895), Spiru Haret (1851), Grigore Moisil (1906), Solomon Marcus (1925), and George Lusztig (1946).

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