Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky
1792 – 1856 · aged 64
Russian mathematician (1792–1856)
- Born
- 1792 · Nizhny Novgorod
- Died
- 1856 · Kazan
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- 1792BornBorn in Nizhny Novgorod
- 1824AwardOrder of St. Vladimir, 4th class
- 1827 – 1846RoleRector
- 1833AwardOrder of Saint Stanislaus, 2nd class
- 1836AwardOrder of Saint Anna, 2nd class
- 1842AwardOrder of St. Vladimir the Equal-to-the-Apostles (3rd class)
- 1844AwardOrder of Saint Stanislaus, 1st class
- 1852AwardOrder of Saint Anna, 1st class
- 1856DiedDied in Kazan
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- 1812 – 1815War of 1812
- 1814 – 1815Congress of Vienna
- 1853 – 1856Crimean War
Biography
Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky (Russian: Никола́й Ива́нович Лобаче́вский, IPA: [nʲɪkɐˈlaj ɪˈvanəvʲɪtɕ ləbɐˈtɕefskʲɪj] ; 1 December [O.S. 20 November] 1792 – 24 February [O.S. 12 February] 1856) was a Russian mathematician and geometer, known primarily for his work on hyperbolic geometry, otherwise known as Lobachevskian geometry, and also for his fundamental study on Dirichlet integrals, known as the Lobachevsky integral formula.
William Kingdon Clifford called Lobachevsky the "Copernicus of Geometry" due to the revolutionary character of his work.
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