Delutan a resztvevok altal bekuldott eloadasok megtartasara kerul sor. A konferenciat a szombat esti bankett zarja.

A konferencia nyelve magyar es angol. Regisztralasi díj: 60 USD, mely tartalmazza a szervezes es a bankett koltseget. Szallasrol es egyeb etkezesrol a resztvevok maguk gondoskodnak.

A konferenciara szeretettel varunk minden tanart, kutatot es erdeklodot. Kerjuk a meghívot a magyar szervezetekben es templomokban is ismertessek. Kerjuk tovabba a mellekelt jelentkezesi lapot visszakuldeni, a kovetkezo ertesítest azoknak kuldjuk el, akiktol ezt kitoltve megkaptuk.

Prof. Dr. Prekopa Andras
Akademikus, a Konferencia Elnoke

Prof. August J. Molnar
az Amerikai Magyar Alapítvany Elnoke

Bolyai Janosrol

Bolyai Janos (1802 december 15 - 1860 januar 27) Kolozsvarott szuletett es Marosvasarhelyen halt meg. Erdely akkoriban onallo Magyar Nagyfejedelemseg volt a Habsburgok uralma alatt. Bolyai Janos, a marosvasarhelyi Reformatus Kollegium híres matematika, fizika es kemia professzoranak, Bolyai Farkasnak a fia, mar tizenevesen hozzafogott, hogy megoldja a ketezer eves problemat: bebizonyítsa Eukleidesz otodik posztulatumat a tobbiekre tamaszkodva. A posztulatum azt mondja ki, hogy a síkban adott egyeneshez egy rajta kívul fekvo ponton at egy es csakis egy parhuzamos huzhato. Miutan felfedezte, hogy az otodik posztulatum fuggetlen a tobbitol, megalkotta az abszolut es a hiperbolikus geometriat. Az elobbiben nem tetelezzuk fel, nem is tagadjuk az otodik posztulatumot, az utobbiban azonban azt tesszuk fel, hogy adott egyeneshez egy rajta kívul fekvo ponton at vegtelen sok parhuzamos huzhato a síkban. Bolyai Janos 21 eves volt, amikor 1823 november 3-an felfedezeserol tudosította apjat: "oly felseges dolgokat hoztam ki, hogy magam is elbamultam… a semmibol egy uj, mas vilagot teremtettem." Bolyai Janos felfedezesenek legertekesebb alkalmazasat a 20-ik szazad modern fizikai elmeleteiben nyerte el. Egyeb munkai kozott legjelentosebb a komplex szamok elmeletenek egzakt megalapozasa. Jollehet semmi egyebet nem publikalt mint a 26 oldalas Appendixet - fokent azert, mert nem ismertek el annak jelentoseget - de hatrahagyott 3000 oldalnyi matematikai es 11000 oldalnyi egyeb temaju keziratot. Nemreg, a matematikai keziratok alapos attanulmanyozasa varatlan sikerrel jart: olyan olyan szamelmeleti “gyongyszemeket" talaltak, melyek teljesen ujak voltak Bolyai koraban.

JANOS BOLYAI CONFERENCE IN NEW BRUNSWICK

Janos Bolyai, the greatest figure in Hungarian science, was born 200 years ago. After the conferences in Hungary and Transylvania the Bolyai anniversary will be celebrated also in the USA, by a scientific conference, which will begin in the evening of November 22nd and terminate in the evening of November 23rd. The lectures will be given in an easily understandable style, and explain the universal importance of Bolyai's discovery. The conference is organized by the Bolyai Lecture Series on Arts and Sciences, the American Hungarian Foundation, and the Hungarian Cultural Center of New York.

The Conference starts on Friday, November 22nd, with evening registration and a ‘get together’ party (6:00-7:30 p.m.). A cultural program starts at 7:30 p.m. The 50 min. main lectures, that will be presented on Saturday, morning, are:

The afternoon program will consist of short lectures. A banquet will take place in the evening.

The language of the Conference is English and Hungarian. The registration fee is $60; it includes the organizational costs as well as the cost of the banquet. Participants are supposed to take care of their accommodation and other meals.

If you are interested in participating, you are kindly asked to complete and return the enclosed registration form so that we can mail out further information. With this invitation we would like to reach out to scientists, researchers, teachers and other interested persons. All Hungarian churches and organizations are kindly asked to announce and post this letter.

Prof. Dr. Andras Prekopa
Chairman of the Conference
Member of Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Prof. August J. Molnar
President of the American Hungarian Foundation

About Janos Bolyai

Janos Bolyai (December 15, 1802 - January 27, 1860) was born in Kolozsvar, Transylvania, at that time a Hungarian Grand Duchy ruled by the Habsburgs, and died in Marosvasarhely, Transylvania. Janos Bolyai, son of Farkas Bolyai, the famous professor of mathematics, physics and chemistry at the Reformed College in Marosvasarhely, as a teenager set himself to resolve the 2000 year old geometry problem, intensively researched also by his father: to prove Euclid's fifth, the so called parallel postulate from Euclid's others. The fifth postulate requires that given a line in the plane and a point outside of it, there exists exactly one line through the point that is parallel to the line. After he had recognized the impossibility of this task, he developed absolute geometry that is independent of the fifth postulate and also hyperbolic geometry where this postulate is negated in such a way that infinitely many parallels are assumed to exist through the given point to the given line. He was only 21 years old when he reported his findings to his father: "I have discovered things so wonderful that I was astounded... out of nothing I have created a new, different world." Bolyai’s geometry made possible the creation of modern physical theories in the 20th century. Bolyai also developed a rigorous geometric concept of complex numbers as ordered pairs of real numbers. Although he never published more than the 26-page Appendix, mainly because he was unable to gain recognition for his work, he left 3,000 pages of mathematical and 11,000 pages of other manuscripts when he died. Quite recently the mathematical manuscripts have been thoroughly researched with surprising success: ‘mathematical gems’ have been found in them, mainly results in number theory which were new in Bolyai ’s time.

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JANOS BOLYAI CONFERENCE IN NEW BRUNSWICK
November 22-23, 2002
Museum of the American Hungarian Foundation

Registration:
Deadline for registration: November 1 and for abstracts November 1st

Name:

Title:

Address (work):

Address (home):

I wish to give a short lecture (10 min: yes-no, in English or in Hungarian): Please underline the correct answer

Title of presentation:

E-mail:

Phone:

Please return the completed registration form by mail to the address below.

Make checks payable to: American Hungarian Foundation
Memo: Bolyai Conference