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János Bolyai
1802–1860
Romanian mathematician
[Of hyperbolic geometry:] I have discovered such wonderful things that I was amazed…out of nothing I have created a strange new universe.
TOPICS: non-euclidean
One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimaera.
TOPICS: nature