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“Detest it as lewd intercourse, it can deprive you of all your leisure, your health, your rest, and the whole happiness of your life. Having himself spent a lifetime unsuccessfully trying to prove Euclid's postulate that parallel lines do not meet, Farkas discouraged his son János from any further attempt.”

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Farkas Bolyai was a Hungarian mathematician renowned for his pivotal contributions to mathematics, especially in the realm of non-Euclidean geometry. Born on February 9, 1775, in Kolozsvár, Hungary, and passing away on November 20, 1856, in Marosvásárhely, Hungary, Bolyai's work fundamentally altered the understanding of geometry. His discovery of non-Euclidean geometry, presented in his posthumously published work 'Über die Egale Vertheilung der Linien in einem Raume,' challenged the established Euclidean parallel postulate and paved the way for the development of hyperbolic geometry. more

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