Janos Bolyai (1802-1860)

Great Hungarian mathematician from Transylvannia. He studied at the Academy for Engineers Corps in Vienna. He made a brilliant figure while being a student by his significant findings. His crucial work, called "Appendix", which he had written in 1832, in no realisation of what Russian mathematician N. I. Lobacevski was doing almost at the same time, fathered the non-Euclidean geometry. Written in Latin, it was meant as a complementary work to his father's, Bolyai Farkas, manual titled: "Tentamen".

In 1837 Bolyai also dedicated his study "Responsio" to complex numbers theory. His findings are dialectical contributions to mathematical problems, as he laid new foundations to geometry and prepared it for new horizons. Regrettably, his work received no due attention and appreciation from his contemporaries.

Last update: 2004, October 26
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