Lobachevskyian

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Lobachevskyian

I believe that there is a specific kind of geometry Lobachevsky developed, called Lobachevskyan geometry. That definition, if I am correct, would be different from the definition of the term as "of or related to Nikolai Lobachevsky" as a person. Sort of like the difference between Freudian psychoanalysis and Freudian in the sense of "of or related to the man named Sigmund Freud", one is related specifically to a scientific theory, the other is related more broadly to biographical information. That's why I added the other definition.

PaulBustion88 (talk)22:21, 24 April 2015

The sense that's already there mentions his work on non-Euclidian geometry, right? It says, paraphrasing, relating to the person Lobachevsky or his work on non-Euclidian geometry.

Internoob22:24, 24 April 2015

But Lobachevskyan also can mean specifically "hyperbolic geometry". I think that sense should be in a separate definition, because its only tangentially related to "of or related to Nikolai Lobachevsky".

PaulBustion88 (talk)22:26, 24 April 2015

But the point is, that the first definition already says, "Of or pertaining ... to his work ... on non-Euclidian geometry".

Internoob22:30, 24 April 2015
 

Maybe it should be two definitions, but if so, you need to remove the part from the first one about the non-Euclidian geometry so that the definitions aren't redundant. So in that case, one would be only about the person and the other only about the geometry.

Internoob22:32, 24 April 2015