Farkas Bolyai
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Farkas Bolyai was a Hungarian mathematician, mainly known for his work in geometry.
Farkas Bolyai
Carl Friedrich Gauss
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Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss was a German mathematician, astronomer, geodesist, and physicist, who contributed to many fields in mathematics and science. His mathematical contributions spanned the bran
Farkas Bolyai
…began to study mathematics systematically at German universities first at Jena and then at Göttingen. In these times Bolyai became a close friend of Carl Friedrich Gauss. He returned home to Kolozsvár in 1799. It was there he met and married Zsuzsanna Benkő and where their son János Bolyai – later an even more famous…
Portrait by Christian Albrecht Jensen, 1840 (copy from Gottlieb Biermann, 1887)
Birthplace in Brunswick (destroyed in World War II)
Gauss's home as student in Göttingen
Old Göttingen observatory, c. 1800