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1-27-1860

Janos Bolyai died in what is now Tirgu-Mures, Romania, and was then part of Hungary. Of his discoveries in non-Euclidean geometry, he wrote to his father Farkas, "From nothing I have created another entirely new world."

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Janos Bolyai
Farkas Bolyai
Non-Euclidean Geometry
Date: 
Friday, January 27, 1860