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19th-century mathematicians from the Russian Empire
Academic staff of Kazan Federal University
Burials at Arskoe Cemetery
Hyperbolic geometers
Mathematicians from Kazan

Algebraic equation

In mathematics, an algebraic equation or polynomial equation is an equation of the form P.

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Andries van Wezel (31 December 1514 – 15 October 1564), latinised as Andreas Vesalius, was an anatomist and physician who wrote De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem (On the fabric of the human body in seven books), what is considered to be one of the most influential books on human anatomy and a major advance over the long-dominant work of Galen.

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Angle of parallelism

In hyperbolic geometry, angle of parallelism \Pi(a) is the angle at the non-right angle vertex of a right hyperbolic triangle having two asymptotic parallel sides.

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Approximation

An approximation is anything that is intentionally similar but not exactly equal to something else.

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Arskoe Cemetery

Arskoe Cemetery is the central necropolis in Kazan, and is located in the city's Vakhitovsky City District, to the northeast of Kazan's centre in Tatarstan, Russia. Nikolai Lobachevsky and Arskoe Cemetery are Burials at Arskoe Cemetery.

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Atheism

Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities.

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Axiom

An axiom, postulate, or assumption is a statement that is taken to be true, to serve as a premise or starting point for further reasoning and arguments.

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Łada coat of arms

Łada (Łady, Ładzic, Mancz) is a Polish szlachta coat of arms originating from Mazovia.

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Carl Friedrich Gauss

Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (Gauß; Carolus Fridericus Gauss; 30 April 177723 February 1855) was a German mathematician, astronomer, geodesist, and physicist who contributed to many fields in mathematics and science.

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Christine Baranski

Christine Jane Baranski (born May 2, 1952) is an American actress.

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Clausen function

In mathematics, the Clausen function, introduced by, is a transcendental, special function of a single variable.

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David Eugene Smith

David Eugene Smith (January 21, 1860 – July 29, 1944) was an American mathematician, educator, and editor.

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Dictionary of Scientific Biography

The Dictionary of Scientific Biography is a scholarly reference work that was published from 1970 through 1980 by publisher Charles Scribner's Sons, with main editor the science historian Charles Gillispie, from Princeton University.

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Differential geometry

Differential geometry is a mathematical discipline that studies the geometry of smooth shapes and smooth spaces, otherwise known as smooth manifolds.

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Dirichlet integral

In mathematics, there are several integrals known as the Dirichlet integral, after the German mathematician Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, one of which is the improper integral of the sinc function over the positive real line: \int_0^\infty \frac \,dx.

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Doorways in the Sand

Doorways in the Sand is a science fiction novel by American writer Roger Zelazny.

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Eric Temple Bell

Eric Temple Bell (7 February 1883 – 21 December 1960) was a Scottish-born mathematician and science fiction writer who lived in the United States for most of his life.

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Euclid

Euclid (Εὐκλείδης; BC) was an ancient Greek mathematician active as a geometer and logician.

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Fantasy

Fantasy is a genre of fiction involving magical elements, as well as a work in this genre.

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Function (mathematics)

In mathematics, a function from a set to a set assigns to each element of exactly one element of.

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G. B. Halsted

George Bruce Halsted (November 25, 1853 – March 16, 1922), usually cited as G. B. Halsted, was an American mathematician who explored foundations of geometry and introduced non-Euclidean geometry into the United States through his translations of works by Bolyai, Lobachevski, Saccheri, and Poincaré.

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Galen

Aelius Galenus or Claudius Galenus (Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; September 129 – 216 AD), often anglicized as Galen or Galen of Pergamon, was a Roman and Greek physician, surgeon, and philosopher.

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Geometry

Geometry is a branch of mathematics concerned with properties of space such as the distance, shape, size, and relative position of figures.

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God Created the Integers

God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History is a 2005 anthology, edited by Stephen Hawking, of "excerpts from thirty-one of the most important works in the history of mathematics." The title of the book is a reference to a quotation attributed to mathematician Leopold Kronecker, who once wrote that "God made the integers; all else is the work of man.".

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Graeffe's method

In mathematics, Graeffe's method or Dandelin–Lobachesky–Graeffe method is an algorithm for finding all of the roots of a polynomial.

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Heinrich Liebmann

Karl Otto Heinrich Liebmann (* 22. October 1874 in Strasbourg; † 12. June 1939 in Munich-Solln) was a German mathematician and geometer.

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Hyperbolic geometry

In mathematics, hyperbolic geometry (also called Lobachevskian geometry or Bolyai–Lobachevskian geometry) is a non-Euclidean geometry.

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Hyperbolic triangle

In hyperbolic geometry, a hyperbolic triangle is a triangle in the hyperbolic plane.

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Hyperboloid structure

Hyperboloid structures are architectural structures designed using a hyperboloid in one sheet.

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Jastrzębiec coat of arms

Jastrzębiec is one of the most ancient Polish coat of arms.

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János Bolyai

János Bolyai (15 December 1802 – 27 January 1860) or Johann Bolyai, was a Hungarian mathematician who developed absolute geometry—a geometry that includes both Euclidean geometry and hyperbolic geometry. Nikolai Lobachevsky and János Bolyai are hyperbolic geometers.

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Johann Christian Martin Bartels

Johann Christian Martin Bartels (12 August 1769 –) was a German mathematician.

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John Playfair

John Playfair FRSE, FRS (10 March 1748 – 20 July 1819) was a Church of Scotland minister, remembered as a scientist and mathematician, and a professor of natural philosophy at the University of Edinburgh.

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Kazan

Kazan is the largest city and capital of Tatarstan, Russia.

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Kazan Federal University

Kazan (Volga region) Federal University (Казанский (Приволжский) федеральный университет, Казан (Идел буе) федераль университеты) is a public research university located in Kazan, Russia.

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Kazan Governorate

Kazan Governorate was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Tsardom of Russia, the Russian Empire, and the Russian SFSR from 1708 to 1920, with its capital in Kazan.

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Kazan Gymnasium

Kazan Gymnasium was a gymnasium of Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia.

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List of geometers

A geometer is a mathematician whose area of study is geometry.

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List of mathematics awards

This list of mathematics awards contains articles about notable awards for mathematics.

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Lobachevskiy (crater)

Lobachevskiy is a lunar impact crater that is located on the far side of the Moon, beyond the eastern limb.

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Lobachevsky (song)

"Lobachevsky" is a humorous song by Tom Lehrer, referring to the mathematician Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky.

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Lobachevsky integral formula

In mathematics, Dirichlet integrals play an important role in distribution theory.

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Lobachevsky Prize

The Lobachevsky Prize, awarded by the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the Lobachevsky Medal, awarded by the Kazan State University, are mathematical awards in honor of Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky.

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Makaryevsky Uyezd (Kostroma Governorate)

Makaryevsky Uyezd (Макарьевский уезд) was one of the subdivisions of the Kostroma Governorate of the Russian Empire.

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Makaryevsky Uyezd (Nizhny Novgorod Governorate)

Makaryevsky Uyezd (Макарьевский уезд) was one of the subdivisions of the Nizhny Novgorod Governorate of the Russian Empire.

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Master of Science

A Master of Science (Magister Scientiae; abbreviated MS, M.S., MSc, M.Sc., SM, S.M., ScM or Sc.M.) is a master's degree.

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Mathematical Association of America

The Mathematical Association of America (MAA) is a professional society that focuses on mathematics accessible at the undergraduate level.

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Men of Mathematics

Men of Mathematics: The Lives and Achievements of the Great Mathematicians from Zeno to Poincaré is a book on the history of mathematics published in 1937 by Scottish-born American mathematician and science fiction writer E. T. Bell (1883–1960).

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N. I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod

The National Research State University of Nizhny Novgorod named after N.I. Lobachevsky, UNN (Russian: Нижегородский национа́льный иссле́довательский госуда́рственный университе́т имени Н.И. Лобачевского), also known as Lobachevsky University, is a public research university in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, and one of the biggest classical universities of the country.

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Nicolaus Copernicus

Nicolaus Copernicus (19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was a Renaissance polymath, active as a mathematician, astronomer, and Catholic canon, who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than Earth at its center.

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Nikolai Brashman

Nikolai Dmitrievich Brashman (Николáй Дми́триевич Брáшман; Nikolaus Braschmann; June 14, 1796 &ndash) was a Russian mathematician of Jewish-Austrian origin. Nikolai Lobachevsky and Nikolai Brashman are 19th-century mathematicians from the Russian Empire.

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Nikolai Lobachevsky

Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky (a; –) was a Russian mathematician and geometer, known primarily for his work on hyperbolic geometry, otherwise known as Lobachevskian geometry, and also for his fundamental study on Dirichlet integrals, known as the Lobachevsky integral formula. Nikolai Lobachevsky and Nikolai Lobachevsky are 1792 births, 1856 deaths, 19th-century mathematicians from the Russian Empire, academic staff of Kazan Federal University, Burials at Arskoe Cemetery, hyperbolic geometers, mathematicians from Kazan, Russian atheists and Russian people of Polish descent.

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Nizhny Novgorod

Nizhny Novgorod is the administrative centre of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast and the Volga Federal District in Russia.

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Nizhny Novgorod Governorate

Nizhny Novgorod Governorate was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Russian Empire, Russian Republic, and the Russian SFSR, roughly corresponding to the Upper and Middle Volga region and what is now most of the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast.

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Nizhny Novgorod Oblast

Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (Nizhegorodskaya oblast') is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast).

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Non-Euclidean geometry

In mathematics, non-Euclidean geometry consists of two geometries based on axioms closely related to those that specify Euclidean geometry.

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Old Style and New Style dates

Old Style (O.S.) and New Style (N.S.) indicate dating systems before and after a calendar change, respectively.

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Operation Chaos (novel)

Operation Chaos is a 1971 science fantasy fixup novel by American writer Poul Anderson.

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Parallel postulate

In geometry, the parallel postulate, also called Euclid's fifth postulate because it is the fifth postulate in Euclid's ''Elements'', is a distinctive axiom in Euclidean geometry.

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Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet

Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (13 February 1805 – 5 May 1859) was a German mathematician.

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Physics

Physics is the natural science of matter, involving the study of matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force.

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Plagiarism

Plagiarism is the representation of another person's language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions as one's own original work.

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Playfair's axiom

In geometry, Playfair's axiom is an axiom that can be used instead of the fifth postulate of Euclid (the parallel postulate): In a plane, given a line and a point not on it, at most one line parallel to the given line can be drawn through the point. It is equivalent to Euclid's parallel postulate in the context of Euclidean geometry and was named after the Scottish mathematician John Playfair.

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Poincaré half-plane model

In non-Euclidean geometry, the Poincaré half-plane model is the upper half-plane, denoted below as H.

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Polish people

Polish people, or Poles, are a West Slavic ethnic group and nation who share a common history, culture, the Polish language and are identified with the country of Poland in Central Europe.

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Poul Anderson

Poul William Anderson (November 25, 1926 – July 31, 2001) was an American fantasy and science fiction author who was active from the 1940s until his death in 2001.

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Professor

Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an academic rank at universities and other post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries.

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Prosody (linguistics)

In linguistics, prosody is the study of elements of speech that are not individual phonetic segments (vowels and consonants) but which are properties of syllables and larger units of speech, including linguistic functions such as intonation, stress, and rhythm.

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Ptolemy

Claudius Ptolemy (Πτολεμαῖος,; Claudius Ptolemaeus; AD) was an Alexandrian mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and music theorist who wrote about a dozen scientific treatises, three of which were important to later Byzantine, Islamic, and Western European science.

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Rector (academia)

A rector (Latin for 'ruler') is a senior official in an educational institution, and can refer to an official in either a university or a secondary school.

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Research

Research is "creative and systematic work undertaken to increase the stock of knowledge".

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Roger Zelazny

Roger Joseph Zelazny (May 13, 1937 – June 14, 1995) was an American poet and writer of fantasy and science fiction short stories and novels, best known for The Chronicles of Amber.

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Russia

Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.

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Russian Empire

The Russian Empire was a vast empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its proclamation in November 1721 until its dissolution in March 1917.

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Songs by Tom Lehrer

Songs by Tom Lehrer is the debut album of musical satirist Tom Lehrer, released in 1953 on his own label, Lehrer Records.

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Stephen Hawking

Stephen William Hawking, (8 January 1942 – 14 March 2018) was an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author who was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge.

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Surveying

Surveying or land surveying is the technique, profession, art, and science of determining the terrestrial two-dimensional or three-dimensional positions of points and the distances and angles between them.

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Tatarstan

Tatarstan (Татарстан; Татарстан), officially the Republic of Tatarstan, sometimes also called Tataria, is a republic of Russia located in Eastern Europe.

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Tom Lehrer

Thomas Andrew Lehrer (born April 9, 1928) is an American musician, singer-songwriter, satirist, and mathematician, who later taught mathematics and musical theater.

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William Kingdon Clifford

William Kingdon Clifford (4 May 18453 March 1879) was a British mathematician and philosopher.

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Zero of a function

In mathematics, a zero (also sometimes called a root) of a real-, complex-, or generally vector-valued function f, is a member x of the domain of f such that f(x) vanishes at x; that is, the function f attains the value of 0 at x, or equivalently, x is a solution to the equation f(x).

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1858 Lobachevskij

1858 Lobachevskij (''prov. designation'') is a rare-type background asteroid from the central region of the asteroid belt, approximately 13 kilometers in diameter.

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3rd Rock from the Sun

3rd Rock from the Sun is an American television sitcom created by Bonnie and Terry Turner, which originally aired from January 9, 1996, to May 22, 2001, on NBC.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Lobachevsky

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19th-century mathematicians from the Russian Empire

Academic staff of Kazan Federal University

Burials at Arskoe Cemetery

Hyperbolic geometers

Mathematicians from Kazan

References