Gregory Galperin to Give January 22nd Talk

In my talk, I will tell you how the three great mathematicians: the Russian N. I. Lobachevsky ( who first offcially published the whole concept of non-Euclidean geometry); the German Carl F. Gauss (The Prince of Mathematicians, who wrote about this modern geometry only in his letters); and the Hungarian J. Bolyai (whose new concept was published as an Appendix to his father's book on geometry) were simulatenously and independently creating a modern geometry quite different from Euclidean Geometry. See full abstract