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Prékopa, A. (2006). The Revolution of János Bolyai. In: Prékopa, A., Molnár, E. (eds) Non-Euclidean Geometries. Mathematics and Its Applications, vol 581. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-29555-0_1

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