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Name: Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky
Birth Date: 1793
Death Date: 1856
Nationality: Russian
Gender: Male
Occupations: geometer and educator

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Biography of Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky
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Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is the first mathematician to publicly publish a system of non-Euclidean geometry. Although Karl Friedrich Gauss preceded him in the late 18th century and János Bolyai had devised a similar (though less analytical)...


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Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky (Никола́й Ива́нович Лобаче́вский) (December 1, 1792 - February 24, 1856 (N.S.); November 20, 1792 - February 12, 1856 (O.S.))) was a Russian mathematician. Unsourced There is no branch of...


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1792-1856 Russian Mathematician The Russian mathematician Nikolai Lobachevsky, along with the Hungarian Janos Bolyai (1802-1860), is considered to be the founder of non-Euclidean geometry. Neither man's contribution was fully recognized until...
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Lobachevsky, Nikolay (Ivanovich)
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(born , Dec. 1, 1792, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia—died Feb. 24, 1856, Kazan) Russian mathematician. His entire life centred around the University of Kazan, where he studied and later (from 1816) taught. In 1829 he published his groundbreaking theory,...


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The Nation
Bukharin redux. (exoneration of Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin) (editorial)
02/20/1988: 317 words, approx. 1 pages
BUKHARIN REDUX The formal exoneration of Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin by the Soviet Supreme Court on February 4, fifty years after his execution as an "enemy of the people," is dramatic reaffirmation of the radical anti-Stalinist nature of Mikhail Gorbachev's proposed reforms, or...
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Dance Teacher
Alwin Nikolais
03/01/2008: 1,455 words, approx. 5 pages
Influential American choreographer and teacher Known as the "wizard" of dance, Alwin Nikolais (1910-1993) was a multi-talented multimedia pioneer who, over the course of 55 years, choreographed everything from dance, opera and site-specific pieces to work for film and worldwide television. While he...
 


 

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