Janos Bolyai — Hungarian Mathematician born on December 15, 1802, died on January 27, 1860

János Bolyai or Johann Bolyai, was a Hungarian mathematician, one of the founders of non-Euclidean geometry — a geometry that differs from Euclidean geometry in its definition of parallel lines. The discovery of a consistent alternative geometry that might correspond to the structure of the universe helped to free mathematicians to study abstract concepts irrespective of any possible connection with the physical world... (wikipedia)

Out of nothing I have created a strange new universe.
Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no man can hasten or retard.
One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimera.