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| | Lobachevsky (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab5.csail.mit.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | Lobachevsky was born in Novgorod, Russia and receceived his higher education at the University of Kazan; he was to spend his entire profession life associated with the university: student, faculty member, librarian, construction supervisor, and ultimately, rector. |
 | | His work was slow to gain acceptance; this is due to it revolutionary character, the inability of Russian mathematicians to understand it (Ostrogradsky at St. Petersberg gave Lobachevsky's major paper a bad review, clearly not seeing its purpose), and its unavailability to european mathematicians. |
 | | This came to an end when a version of it was published in Crelle's Journal and with the sponsorship of Gauss, Lobachevsky was elected a member of the Gottingen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften. |
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