HPS391H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Limiting Parallel, Complex Analysis, Quadrilateral
29 Apr 2016
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This chapter starts off where the previous chapter left off, with janos at the brink of a great discovery, which he calls a strange new universe. Janos bolyai was asked by his father to hasten his publication of the ideas because he feared that someone else might copy and publish them, if not publish their own ideas on the matter. He eventually did so in an appendix to his father"s book tentamen. Wolfgang eagerly sent this book to his good friend guass, who was the foremost mathematician of the time. However, gauss replies to wolgang saying that all the ideas in the work of janos were playing in his mind for 30-35 years. This greatly upsets janos as he feels that gauss is trying to steal his work as his own. He goes into depression and never again published his research. However, there is certain evidence that guass had been pondering over these ideas since he was 15.
