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Nikolai I. Lobachevsky (1792-1856) was a Russian mathematician.
He developed non-Euclidean geometry independently of his rival the Hungarian mathematician Janos Bolyai, who developed the same concept at the same time. Non-Euclidean geometry is a system of geometry that rejects traditional Euclidean geometry's fifth postulate that parallel lines can never intersect. He also invented a method for finding the approximations of the roots of algebraic equations.
In Popular Culture
He is also the subject of a rather amusing song by the comedic musician, Tom Lehrer that makes fun of Lobachevsky because of his notorious tendency to plagiarize. He is also the subject of a science fiction novella called Operation Changeling by Poul Anderson in which his ghost and the ghost of Bolyai help a group of wizards to navigate a non-Euclidean universe.