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Farkas and János Bolyai

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The lives and works of Farkas and János Bolyai are presented.

Written on the ground of the paper: András Prékopa, “The revolution of János Bolyai”, in “Non–Euclidean Geometry, János Bolyai Memorial Volume” (Eds. András Prékopa and Emil Molnár), Springer, 2006.

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  1. Mathematical Institute of the Serbian Academy of Science and Arts, Kneza Mihaila 36, 11001, Beograd, Serbia

    Mileva Prvanović

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  1. Department of Teacher Education, Thomas More University College Department of Teacher Education, Vorselaar, Belgium

    Stefan Haesen

  2. Department of Mathematics, University of Leuven Department of Mathematics, Leuven, Belgium

    Leopold Verstraelen

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Prvanović, M. (2017). Farkas and János Bolyai. In: Haesen, S., Verstraelen, L. (eds) Topics in Modern Differential Geometry. Atlantis Transactions in Geometry, vol 1. Atlantis Press, Paris. https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6239-240-3_6

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