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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 247,939 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). János Bolyai is the 99th most popular mathematician (down from 96th in 2019), the 37th most popular biography from Romania (down from 32nd 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 99 out of 823. Before him are Leopold Kronecker, Joan Clarke, Siméon Denis Poisson, Pierre Louis Maupertuis, Christian Goldbach, and Thomas Harriot. After him are Jean-Victor Poncelet, Gabriel Cramer, Hippocrates of Chios, Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, Lodovico Ferrari, and John Couch Adams.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1802, János Bolyai ranks 6. Before him are Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, Archduke Franz Karl of Austria, Niels Henrik Abel, and Lajos Kossuth. After him are Miguel I of Portugal, Elias Lönnrot, Wilhelm Hauff, Charles Wheatstone, Heinrich Gustav Magnus, and Antoine Jérôme Balard. Among people deceased in 1860, János Bolyai ranks 7. Before him are Arthur Schopenhauer, Phineas Gage, Désirée Clary, Jérôme Bonaparte, Alexandra Feodorovna, and Charles Goodyear. After him are Miloš Obrenović, Stéphanie de Beauharnais, Princess Juliane of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, William Walker, István Széchenyi, and Julia Pastrana.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, János Bolyai ranks 37 out of 665. Before him are Gheorghe Zamfir (1941), Michael the Brave (1558), Mihai Eminescu (1850), Jacob L. Moreno (1889), George Enescu (1881), and Klaus Iohannis (1959). After him are Álmos (820), Hermann Oberth (1894), Gabriel Bethlen (1580), Bela Lugosi (1882), Radu cel Frumos (1438), and Dimitrie Cantemir (1673).

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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), and Solomon Marcus (1925).

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