Definition of Lobachevsky

1. Noun. Russian mathematician who independently discovered non-Euclidean geometry (1792-1856).

Exact synonyms: Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky
Generic synonyms: Mathematician

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lobachevsky

Llewelyn
Lloyd
Lloyd's reagent
Lloyd Webber
Llullaillaco
Llyr
Lo
Lo/Ovral
LoD
LoTAG
Lo dose
Loa loa
Loafer
Loasaceae
Lobachevskian
Lobachevsky
Lobamba
Lobata
Lobelia cardinalis
Lobelia dortmanna
Lobelia inflata
Lobelia siphilitica
Lobeliaceae
Lobipes
Lobipes lobatus
Lobo
Lobo's disease
Loboa loboi
Lobotes
Lobotes pacificus

Literary usage of Lobachevsky

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1896)
"Nature states the monument to lobachevsky, erected at Kazan, ... Suvoroff referred to the scientific work of lobachevsky in mathematics and physics, ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1895)
"Within the last thirty years the name of lobachevsky has become widely known as that of one of the earliest discoverers in the field of ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The system treated is the same as that of lobachevsky. ... Among the theorems which are easily proved on the hypothesis of Bolyai and lobachevsky are : that ..."

4. Bulletin of the New York Mathematical Society by New York Mathematical Society (1894)
"THE one hundredth anniversary of the birth of the Russian mathematician Nicolas Ivanovich lobachevsky, which occurred . on the 3d of November (or 22d of ..."

5. Monographs on Topics of Modern Mathematics: Relevant to the Elementary Field by Jacob William Albert Young, Oswald Veblen, Thomas Franklin Holgate, Frederick Shenstone Woods, Edward Vermilye Huntington, George Abram Miller, Gilbert Ames Bliss, Leonard Eugene Dickson, David Eugene Smith (1911)
"That of lobachevsky is contained in several articles published between 1833 and 1855, and that of Bolyai in an appendix to a work of his father published in ..."

6. Higher Mathematics: A Textbook for Classical and Engineering Colleges by Mansfield Merriman, Robert Simpson Woodward (1896)
"It was at one time surmised that Gauss was the real founder of the non- Euclidean geometry, his influence being exerted on lobachevsky through his friend ..."

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