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János Bolyai died 165 years ago

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

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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