Nikolai Lobachevsky
Николай Лобачевский · Nikolay Lobachevsky
1792–1856
He worked on a new kind of geometry. Bolyai and Gauss did too.
He was born in Nizhny Novgorod.
He worked on a kind of geometry where the usual rules of lines change.
János Bolyai and Carl Friedrich Gauss also worked on this kind of geometry.
Places
- Nizhny Novgorod
- Kazan
Made or found
- A new kind of geometry. Nikolai Lobachevsky worked on it. János Bolyai and Carl Friedrich Gauss also worked on this kind of geometry.