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János Bolyai

1802 - 1860

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János Bolyai (Hungarian: [ˈjaːnoʃ ˈboːjɒi]; 15 December 1802 – 27 January 1860) or Johann Bolyai, was a Hungarian mathematician who developed absolute geometry—a geometry that includes both Euclidean geometry and hyperbolic geometry. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of János Bolyai has received more than 270,696 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). János Bolyai is the 112th most popular mathematician (down from 99th in 2019), the 44th most popular biography from Romania (down from 37th in 2019) and the most popular Romanian Mathematician.

János Bolyai was a Hungarian mathematician who is most famous for being the father of non-Euclidean geometry.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, János Bolyai ranks 112 out of 1,004. Before him are Charles Hermite, Paul Ehrenfest, John Wallis, Anthemius of Tralles, Girard Desargues, and Brook Taylor. After him are John Couch Adams, Jean-Victor Poncelet, Hippocrates of Chios, Meton of Athens, Theon of Alexandria, and Leonid Kantorovich.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1802, János Bolyai ranks 7. Before him are Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, Niels Henrik Abel, Archduke Franz Karl of Austria, Lajos Kossuth, and Elias Lönnrot. After him are Miguel I of Portugal, Wilhelm Hauff, Louis-Eugène Cavaignac, Charles Wheatstone, Germain Henri Hess, and Heinrich Gustav Magnus. Among people deceased in 1860, János Bolyai ranks 8. Before him are Phineas Gage, Désirée Clary, Jérôme Bonaparte, Alexandra Feodorovna, Miloš Obrenović, and Charles Goodyear. After him are Stéphanie de Beauharnais, Julia Pastrana, Princess Juliane of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Danilo I, Prince of Montenegro, István Széchenyi, and William Walker.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, János Bolyai ranks 44 out of 844. Before him are Dimitrie Cantemir (1673), Iannis Xenakis (1922), Mihai Eminescu (1850), Milan I of Serbia (1854), Basarab I of Wallachia (1275), and Radu cel Frumos (1438). After him are Bela Lugosi (1882), John Cassian (360), Mircea I of Wallachia (1355), Alexandru Ioan Cuza (1820), Ilie Năstase (1946), and Alexander Löhr (1885).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Romania

Among mathematicians born in Romania, János Bolyai ranks 1. After him are Zoia Ceaușescu (1949), Farkas Bolyai (1775), 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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