Tentamen juventutem studiosam in elementa matheseos purae, elementaris ac sublimioris, methodo intuitiva, evidentiaque huic propria, introducendi

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116. Independently of both Lobachevskii and Gauss, Janos Bolyai produced his
own system of non-Euclidean geometry which was published as an appendix to
his father Farkas's larger work. This privately printed work was poorly
printed by a an obscure college publisher in a run of about 150 copies in a
small city in Hungary (now known as Targu Mures in Rumania) and few people
noticed it at the time.Nevertheless, it is regarded as a remarkable
mathematical achievement and upon its rediscovery in the early 1900s it was
crucial for the mathematical basis of relativity theory.