Lobachevsky

American

[loh-buh-chef-skee, luh-buh-chyef-skyee] / ˌloʊ bəˈtʃɛf ski, lə bʌˈtʃyɛf skyi /

noun

Nikolai Ivanovich 1793–1856, Russian mathematician.

Lobachevsky British

/ ləbaˈtʃɛfskij /

noun

Nikolai Ivanovich (nikaˈlaj iˈvanəvitʃ). 1793–1856, Russian mathematician; a founder of non-Euclidean geometry

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Indeed, Lobachevsky has the honor of publishing first in the field.

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Now, Bernardo Spagnolo, a biophysicist at the University of Palermo in Italy and collaborators at Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod in Russia have come up with a simple neurological model that does the trick.

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