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- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 9 February 1775
- Died
- 20 November 1856, 21 November 1856
- Place of birth
- Buia
- Place of death
- Târgu Mureș
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Farkas
- Family name
- Bolyai
- Child
- János Bolyai
- Field of work
- mathematics
- Occupation
- mathematician, poet, inventor, astronomer
- Citizenship
- Austrian Empire
- Native language
- Hungarian
- described by source
- Svensk uppslagsbok, Nordisk familjebok, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich, Ujabb kori ismeretek tára, Hungarian writers. Biography collection, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)
- doctoral advisor
- Abraham Gotthelf Kästner
- doctoral student
- János Bolyai
- member of
- Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- name
- Wolfgang Bolyai
- name in native language
- Farkas Bolyai
- notable work
- Wallace–Bolyai–Gerwien theorem
- partner in business or sport
- Carl Friedrich Gauss
- place of burial
- Reformed Protestant cemetery
- residence
- Habsburg monarchy
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