Lobachevsky

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Lo·ba·chev·sky

 (lō′bə-chĕf′skē, lə-bə-chyĕf′-), Nikolai Ivanovich 1792-1856.
Russian mathematician who developed (1826) a system of non-Euclidean geometry.
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Lobachevsky

(Russian ləbaˈtʃɛfskij)
n
(Biography) Nikolai Ivanovich (nikaˈlaj iˈvanəvitʃ). 1793–1856, Russian mathematician; a founder of non-Euclidean geometry
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Lo•ba•chev•sky

(ˌloʊ bəˈtʃɛf ski)

n.
Nikolai Ivanovich, 1793–1856, Russian mathematician.
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