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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 the desired impression.Opening Lobachevsky left not accepted Russia`s scientists.In fact, this day was the beginning of non-Euclidean geometry.Opening Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky became known mathematicians of the world only in 1840.
The best minds of the world praised the discovery and study of Lobachevskii.Gottingen Scientific Society at the suggestion of prominent mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky elected a corresponding member. |
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