„A semmiből egy új, más világot teremtettem” Hogyan értette ezt Bolyai János 200 évvel ezelőtt?
“I created a new, different world out of nothing” How did János Bolyai understand this 200 years ago?
Author(s): Botond GaálSubject(s): Religion and science , Philosophy of Science
Published by: Erdélyi Református Egyházkerület
Keywords: Euclidean geometry; axioms; postulates; hyperbolic geometry; opening of closed systems;
Summary/Abstract: Most of the things we learned about geometry in school were part of a world of knowledge based on the Euclidean axioms. That kind of knowledge, however, is not sufficient to understand all the laws and structures of nature. There are unique curved surfaces that can only be described using non-Euclidean geometry. This new form of geometry was discovered by János Bolyai in 1823, an excellent student of the Reformed College of Marosvásárhely in Transylvania. Through his achievement, he opened the former axiomatic Euclidean world.
Journal: Református Szemle
- Issue Year: 116/2023
- Issue No: 5
- Page Range: 511-521
- Page Count: 11
- Language: Hungarian
