Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky
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Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky (Никола́й Ива́нович Лобаче́вский) (December 1, 1792 – February 24, 1856, N.S.; November 20, 1792 – February 12, 1856, O.S.) was a Russian mathematician.
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- There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world.
- The Foundations of Geometry and the Non-Euclidean Plane by George Edward Martin (1982) p.225