TRANSLATOR'S INTRODUCTION, xxvii 



1895. This will be given in full in my life of 

 Bolyai; but here an extract will suffice: 



"My Dear and Good Father: 



"I have so much to write about my new 

 inventions that it is impossible for the mo- 

 ment to enter into great details, so I write 

 you only on one-fourth of a sheet. I await 

 your answer to my letter of two sheets; and 

 perhaps I w^ould not have written you before 

 receiving it, if 1 had not wished to address to 

 you the letter I am writing to the Baroness, 

 which letter I pray you to send her. 



* * First of all I reply to you in regard to the 



binominal. 



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"Now to something else, so far as space 

 permits. I intend to write, as soon as I have 

 put it into order, and when possible to pub- 

 lish, a work on parallels. 



"At this moment it is not yet finished, 

 but the way which I have followed promises 

 me with certainty the attainment of the goal, 

 if it in general is attainable. It is not yet 

 attained, but I have discovered such magnifi- 

 cent things that I am myself astonished at 

 them. 



"It would be damage eternal if they were 



