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Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky
Russian mathematician (1792–1856)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 20 November 1792
- Died
- 12 February 1856
- Place of birth
- Nizhny Novgorod
- Place of death
- Kazan
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Nikolay
- Field of work
- geometry, algebra, mathematical analysis, probability theory, trigonometry, mathematics, non-Euclidean geometry, hyperbolic geometry
- Occupation
- mathematician, university teacher
- Position held
- rector
- Citizenship
- Russian Empire
- Awards
- Order of Saint Anna, 1st class, Order of Saint Anna, 2nd class, Order of Saint Stanislaus, 1st class, Order of Saint Stanislaus, 2nd class, Order of St. Vladimir, 4th class, Order of St. Vladimir the Equal-to-the-Apostles (3rd class)
- academic degree
- Master of Sciences
- birth name
- Николай Иванович Лобачевский
- described by source
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Russian Biographical Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), Pedagogues and Psychologists of the World, Astronomers: A Biographical Reference
- doctoral advisor
- Johann Christian Martin Bartels, Stepan Rumovsky
- doctoral student
- Nikolai Brashman
- educated at
- Kazan Imperial University
- employer
- Kazan Imperial University
- languages spoken, written or signed
- Russian
- name in native language
- Николай Иванович Лобачевский
- notable work
- hyperbolic geometry, Test of Lobachevsky, Graeffe's method, Lobachevsky integral formula
- place of burial
- Arskoe cemetery
- residence
- Q56024391
- student of
- Karl Fuchs
- topic's main category
- Category:Nikolai Lobachevsky
- writing language
- Russian
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