Nikolai lobachevsky facts about mercury

On February 24, , Russianmathematician and geometerNikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky passed away. He is known primarily for his work on hyperbolic geometry.

Lobachevsky&#;s main achievement is the development (independently from János Bolyai) of a non-Euclidean geometry, also referred to as Lobachevskian geometry.

Nikolai Lobachevsky &#; Early Years

Nikolai Lobachevsky was born as one of three children either in or near the city of Nizhny Novgorodin Russia in to parents of Polishorigin.

His father Ivan Maksimovich Lobachevsky, a clerk in a land surveying office, died when he was seven, and his mother moved to Kazan. Financed by governmentscholarships, Lobachevsky attended Kazan Gymnasium from , graduating in and then received a scholarship to Kazan University, which was founded just three years earlier in His original intention was to study medicine but he changed to study a broad scientific course involving mathematics and physics.[1]

Academic Career

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