Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky Quotes

Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky was a Russian mathematician and geometer, known primarily for his work on hyperbolic geometry, otherwise known as Lobachevskian geometry and also his fundamental study on Dirichlet integrals known as Lobachevsky integral formula.

William Kingdon Clifford called Lobachevsky the "Copernicus of Geometry" due to the revolutionary character of his work. Wikipedia  

✵ 20. November 1792 – 12. February 1856
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Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky Quotes

“There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world.”

As quoted in George Edward Martin, The Foundations of Geometry and the Non-Euclidean Plane, Springer (1998 [1975]), p. 225; also in Stanley Gudder, A Mathematical Journey, McGraw-Hill (1976), p. 36.

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