Orson Pratt
Apostle of the LDS Church
Janos Bolyai
Hungarian mathematician
Janos Bolyaior Johann Bolyai, was a Hungarian mathematician who developed absolute geometry–a geometry that includes both Euclidean geometry and hyperbolic geometry. The discovery of a consistent alternative geometry that might correspond to the structure of the universe helped to free mathematicians to study abstract concepts irrespective of any possible connection with the physical world.
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About the Janos Bolyai
Janos Bolyaior Johann Bolyai, was a Hungarian mathematician who developed absolute geometry–a geometry that includes both Euclidean geometry and hyperbolic geometry. The discovery of a consistent alternative geometry that might correspond to the structure of the universe helped to free mathematicians to study abstract concepts irrespective of any possible connection with the physical world.
3 Quotes by Janos Bolyai
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One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimera.
Janos BolyaiHungarian mathematician
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Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no man can hasten or retard.
Janos BolyaiHungarian mathematician
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Out of nothing I have created a strange new universe.
Janos BolyaiHungarian mathematician