Mathematician:Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky

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Mathematician

Known as "the Copernicus of geometry", for his development of a non-Euclidean geometry, that is, one which does not use the parallel postulate.

Subject of a song by Tom Lehrer.


Nationality

Russian


History

  • Born: 1 December 1792 in Nizhny Novgorod (was Gorky from 1932-1990), Russia
  • Died: 24 February 1856 in Kazan, Russia


Theorems and Conjectures

Results named for Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky can be found here.


Publications

  • 1823: Geometriya (although not published its exact original form till 1909)
  • 1829: A concise outline of the foundations of geometry
  • 1832: On the most important subjects of education
  • 1837: Géométrie imaginaire
  • 1840: Geometrische Untersuchungen zur Theorie der Parellellinien


Also known as

Full name in Russian: Никола́й Ива́нович Лобаче́вский.

His name is variously rendered in Roman script; for example, Eric Temple Bell in his Men of Mathematics writes it as Lobatchewsky.


Sources

but note the erroneous birth year