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János Bolyai died 165 years ago
The genius who defied Euclid's geometry

There are many Hungarians who excelled in math, much before the Abel prize took notice.
Bólyai a founder of non-Euclidean geometry, a system of geometry that differs from Euclidean geometry by rejecting the Euclidean parallel postulate. He independently developed hyperbolic geometry, a new geometrical world where multiple lines could be drawn parallel to a given line through a point not on that line.
János Bolyai was a math genius was not appreciated in life, but Enstein built upon his discoveries to develop his theory of special relativity and describe the warped nature of space-time.
How a Hungarian teenager revolutionized math and relativity
Explanation of hyperbolic space:

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