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(David DeLaney) wrote in
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>> That would have been Janos Bolyai -
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> ObSF: Poul Anderson, Operation Chaos.
ObMusic: Since it's all due to Bolyai and no one else, we have this:
Who made me the genius I am today,
The mathematician that others all quote?
Who's the professor that made me that way,
The greatest that ever got chalk on his coat?
One man deserves the credit,
One man deserves the blame,
and Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is his name. Oy!
Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is his name.
I am never forget the day I first meet the great Lobachevsky.
In one word he told me secret of success in mathematics: Plagiarize!
Plagiarize,
Let no one else's work evade your eyes,
Remember why the good Lord made your eyes,
So don't shade your eyes,
But plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize...
Only be sure always to call it please, "research".
And ever since I meet this man my life is not the same,
And Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is his name. Oy!
Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is his name.
And who deserves the credit?
And who deserves the blame?
Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is his name.
Oy!
I still think Beltrami gave the first rigorous independence proof, as he
showed that if the axioms of Euclidean geometry were consistent, so were
those of hyperbolic geometry, and vice-versa. When Hilbert proved the
consistency of Euclidean geometry, hyperbolic geometry therefore followed.
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