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'''Nikolai I. Lobachevsky''' (1792-1856) was a Russian mathematician. | '''Nikolai I. Lobachevsky''' (1792-1856) was a Russian mathematician. | ||
| − | He | + | He was one of the pioneers of non-Euclidean geometry, 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. |
[[Category: Mathematicians|Lobachevsky, Nikolai I]] | [[Category: Mathematicians|Lobachevsky, Nikolai I]] | ||
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Nikolai I. Lobachevsky (1792-1856) was a Russian mathematician.
He was one of the pioneers of non-Euclidean geometry, 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.