N.I.Lobachevsky initiated the non-Euclidean geometry.

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1826 y.

February 23, 1826 Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky spoke at the meeting of Physical-Mathematical Faculty of Kazan University.Attention in session, he presented the report "a concise outline of the geometry began with a strict proof of the theorem of parallel.In his report, Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky laid down the basis of the new geometry, which violated generally accepted view.

In the "imaginary" geometry expressed by the theory of convergence of parallel lines are not made to present th...

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1874 y.

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1959 y.

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N.I.Lobachevsky initiated the non-Euclidean geometry.

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