By András Prékopa (auth.), András Prékopa, Emil Molnár (eds.)
"From not anything i've got created a brand new assorted world,” wrote János Bolyai to his father, Wolgang Bolyai, on November three, 1823, to permit him recognize his discovery of non-Euclidean geometry, as we name it this day. the result of Bolyai and the co-discoverer, the Russian Lobachevskii, replaced the process arithmetic, opened the best way for contemporary actual theories of the 20 th century, and had an influence at the background of human tradition.
The papers during this quantity, which commemorates the 200th anniversary of the delivery of János Bolyai, have been written by way of best scientists of non-Euclidean geometry, its historical past, and its purposes. a number of the papers current new discoveries in regards to the lifestyles and works of János Bolyai and the heritage of non-Euclidean geometry, others care for geometrical axiomatics; polyhedra; fractals; hyperbolic, Riemannian and discrete geometry; tilings; visualization; and functions in physics.
Audience
This booklet is meant if you educate, research, and do study in geometry and heritage of arithmetic. Cultural historians, physicists, and machine scientists also will locate it a huge resource of knowledge.