ProofWiki:Mathematicians/Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky
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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.
Known as "the Copernicus of geometry", for his development of a non-Euclidean geometry, i.e. one which does not use the parallel postulate.
Subject of a song by Tom Lehrer.
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Nationality
Russian
History
- Born: 1 Dec 1792, Nizhny Novgorod (was Gorky from 1932-1990), Russia
- Died: 24 Feb 1856, Kazan, Russia
Theorems and Conjectures
Books and Papers
- 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 see
- John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
- Eric Temple Bell: Men of Mathematics (1937): Chapter $\text{XVI}$
