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Nikolai Lobachevsky

1792 - 1856

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nikolai Lobachevsky is the 65th most popular mathematician (up from 72nd in 2019), the 120th most popular biography from Russia (up from 140th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Russian Mathematician.

Nikolai Lobachevsky is most famous for his work in geometry. He is best known for his work on non-Euclidean geometry, which was a revolutionary discovery in the world of mathematics.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Nikolai Lobachevsky ranks 65 out of 1,004. Before him are Karl Weierstrass, Sofia Kovalevskaya, Marin Mersenne, Émilie du Châtelet, Ludolph van Ceulen, and Girard Desargues. After him are Richard Dedekind, Johann Heinrich Lambert, Hermann Minkowski, Andrey Kolmogorov, Gaspard Monge, and Norbert Wiener.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1792, Nikolai Lobachevsky ranks 5. Before him are Pope Pius IX, Gioachino Rossini, Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis, and John Herschel. After him are Percy Bysshe Shelley, William II of the Netherlands, Karl Ernst von Baer, Caroline Augusta of Bavaria, Alexander Ypsilantis, Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen, and Johann Peter Eckermann. Among people deceased in 1856, Nikolai Lobachevsky ranks 5. Before him are Robert Schumann, Heinrich Heine, Amedeo Avogadro, and Max Stirner. After him are Adolphe Adam, Paul Delaroche, John Ross, Ivan Paskevich, Étienne Cabet, Ľudovít Štúr, and Florestan I, Prince of Monaco.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nikolai Lobachevsky ranks 120 out of 3,761. Before him are Yevgeny Prigozhin (1961), Grigory Potemkin (1739), Anatoly Karpov (1951), Vladimir Komarov (1927), Ivan VI of Russia (1740), and Olga of Kiev (890). After him are Mikhail Sholokhov (1905), Feodor III of Russia (1661), Dzhokhar Dudayev (1944), Shamil, 3rd Imam of Dagestan (1797), Mikhail Glinka (1804), and Sergey Kirov (1886).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Russia

Among mathematicians born in Russia, Nikolai Lobachevsky ranks 4. Before him are David Hilbert (1862), Georg Cantor (1845), and Sofia Kovalevskaya (1850). After him are Andrey Kolmogorov (1903), Christian Goldbach (1690), Grigori Perelman (1966), Leonid Kantorovich (1912), Alexander Friedmann (1888), Andrey Markov (1856), Aleksandr Lyapunov (1857), and Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov (1943).

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