MATHEMATICIAN

Nikolai Lobachevsky

1792 - 1856

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Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky (Russian: Никола́й Ива́нович Лобаче́вский, IPA: [nʲikɐˈlaj ɪˈvanəvʲɪtɕ ləbɐˈtɕɛfskʲɪj] ; 1 December [O.S. 20 November] 1792 – 24 February [O.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nikolai Lobachevsky has received more than 403,117 page views. His biography is available in 82 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 77 in 2019). Nikolai Lobachevsky is the 72nd most popular mathematician (down from 54th in 2019), the 140th most popular biography from Russia (down from 125th 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 72 out of 1,004. Before him are Friedrich Bessel, Abraham de Moivre, Ludolph van Ceulen, Giuseppe Peano, Richard Dedekind, and Alexander Grothendieck. After him are Bonaventura Cavalieri, Zhang Heng, Alfred North Whitehead, Johann Heinrich Lambert, Benoit Mandelbrot, and Augustus De Morgan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1792, Nikolai Lobachevsky ranks 6. Before him are Gioachino Rossini, Pope Pius IX, Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis, William II of the Netherlands, and Percy Bysshe Shelley. After him are John Herschel, Karl Ernst von Baer, Caroline Augusta of Bavaria, Alexander Ypsilantis, Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen, and William, Duke of Nassau. Among people deceased in 1856, Nikolai Lobachevsky ranks 6. Before him are Robert Schumann, Heinrich Heine, Amedeo Avogadro, Max Stirner, and Adolphe Adam. After him are Paul Delaroche, Ivan Paskevich, Étienne Cabet, Ľudovít Štúr, 11th Dalai Lama, and Théodore Chassériau.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nikolai Lobachevsky ranks 140 out of 3,761. Before him are Anna Pavlovna of Russia (1795), Dmitry Donskoy (1350), Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia (1897), Pyotr Bagration (1765), Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia (1899), and Aleksandr Vasilevsky (1895). After him are Arnold Sommerfeld (1868), Vladimir Vysotsky (1938), Mily Balakirev (1837), Georgi Plekhanov (1856), Walther Funk (1890), and Alexei Kosygin (1904).

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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), Alexander Friedmann (1888), Grigori Perelman (1966), Christian Goldbach (1690), Leonid Kantorovich (1912), Andrey Markov (1856), Aleksandr Lyapunov (1857), and Nikolay Bogolyubov (1909).

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