
Nikolai Lobachevsky
Mathematician, Academic
1792 – 1856
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Who was Nikolai Lobachevsky?
Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky was a Russian mathematician and geometer, known primarily for his work on hyperbolic geometry, otherwise known as Lobachevskian geometry.
William Kingdon Clifford called Lobachevsky the "Copernicus of Geometry" due to the revolutionary character of his work.
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