 A street in Budapest, Hungary and another two in Kolozsvár  and Temesvár (now Cluj-Napoca and Timișoara), Romania are also named after him.The professional society of Hungarian mathematicians also bears his name.Bolyai is a minor character in the 1969 science-fiction/fantasy story "Operation Changeling", where his unique abilities allow the protagonists to navigate the non-Euclidean geometry of Hell.