Jànos Bolyai Back in 19th century, two extremely intelligent mathematicians, the Hungarian Jànos Bolyai and the Russian Nicolai Lobechevsky, showed that one could throw out Euclid’s parallel postulate and come up with a weird yet consistent form of geometry. Jànos Bolyai was a great man that helped further the exploration of geometry and math. Jànos was born on December 15, 1802 in Kolozsvàr, Hungary. This place is now referred to as …showed first 75 words of 567 total…

…showed last 75 words of 567 total…nos Bolyai died on January 27, 1860 in Marosvàràrhely, Hungary. This place is now known as Tirgu-Mures, Romania. Jànos Bolyai was and still is a great asset to non-Euclidean geometry. This Hungarian mathematician was born and died in Hungary and the memory of him and his work will live on forever. He helped people see that there are many ways of doing things and not everything is as flat as a piece of paper.