F. Farkas Bolyai (1775-1856) was a Hungarian mathematician, poet and playwright.In his lifetime, he tried to prove Euclid'sFifth public establishment。stayUniversity of GettingenHe became a famous mathematician when he studiedGaussianHe remained a close friend of Gauss until his death in 1855.In 1804, he served as a teacher in the Evangelical Reformist Academy of Maurosh Vassalhai, and retired in 1853.He was almost completely isolated from the scientific community, but still tirelessly studied the axiom of parallel lines.In 1804, he sent a certificate to Gauss, who pointed out the shortcomings, but he continued to study it.
F. Bowyer wrote poems when he was frustrated in studying the parallel line axiommusicandscriptTo find comfort.His plays include Five Tragedies Written by a Patriot (1817) and The Progress of Paris (1818).
In 1829, F. Bowyer completed the most important book, Attempt to Introduce Learning Young People into Pure Mathematical Principles (1832), which is an introduction togeometry、arithmetic、AlgebraAnd the analysis of the rigorous and systematic treatise, but not by contemporary people's attention.His son J. Bowyer succeeded in creating aNon Euclidean geometry[1]。
