Lobachevsky Nikolai Ivanovich
Lo·ba·chev·sky
(lō′bə-chĕf′skē, lə-bə-chyĕf′-), Nikolai Ivanovich 1792-1856. Russian mathematician who developed (1826) a system of non-Euclidean geometry.
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