János Bolyai
1802 CE–1860 CE · Cluj (Klausenburg)
János Bolyai (; Hungarian: [ˈjaːnoʃ ˈboːjɒi]; 15 December 1802 – 27 January 1860) or Johann Bolyai, was a Hungarian mathematician who developed absolute geometry—a geometry that includes both Euclidean geometry and hyperbolic geometry. The discovery of a consistent alternative geometry that might correspond to the structure of the universe helped to free mathematicians to study abstract concepts irrespective of any possible connection with the physical world.
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Cluj (German Klausenburg, Hungarian Kolozsvár), the principal city of Transylvania (today Cluj-Napoca, Romania), had a large Jewish community. Rabbi Moshe Shmuel Glasner served as its chief rabbi from 1877 to 1923, and it later gave its name to the Sanz-Klausenburg chasidic dynasty, founded there by Rabbi Yekutiel Yehuda Halberstam, a great-grandson of the Divrei Chaim of Sanz.
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