Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky — Age, Birthday & Biography
Born: 1 December 1792 · Died: 24 February 1856 · Age: 63
Russian mathematician who pioneered the development of non-Euclidean geometry
Did you know?His ground-breaking work was so revolutionary that it was initially rejected by the scientific community and only recognised after his death.
Quick facts
Date of birth1 December 1792
Date of death24 February 1856
Age at death63
NationalityRussian
BirthplaceNizhny Novgorod, Russia
Occupationmathematician, university teacher
Editor's Take:
Nikolai Lobachevsky challenged a rule that had been accepted for two thousand years. He showed that a consistent geometry could exist in which parallel lines behave differently from Euclid's. Few understood him in his own day. He spent his career running a provincial university. His ideas later underpinned modern mathematics and Einstein's view of curved space. Today a crater on the Moon and an asteroid bear his name. Mathematicians now count him among the founders of modern geometry.
Key Milestones
1811: Graduates from Kazan University
1827: Becomes rector of Kazan University
1829: Publishes his new geometry
1855: Publishes Pangeometry
Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky (Russian: Никола́й Ива́нович Лобаче́вский, IPA:; 1 December 1792 – 24 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…
Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky's birthday is December 1. He was born on December 1, 1792 in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.
How old was Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky when he died?
Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky died on February 24, 1856, aged 63.
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