scientific article; zbMATH DE number 175754

History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70) History of mathematics at specific universities (01A73)

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This short paper deals with the activities of Lobachevskij as the Rector of Kazan' University. Lobachevskij successfully separated concerns both in the meetings of the University Council and in the publications of the University journal: in both cases, scientific activities have been separated from routine everyday and political ones. Although the number of scientific meetings (and agenda items) of the University Council has been substantially smaller than the number of routine ones, this separation --- as well as publications of scientific nature including the ones authored by Lobachevskij --- has been considered quite important. In particular, Lobachevskij's own paper on foundations of geometry describing non-Euclidean geometry has been published in the University journal in January 1829. The author notes that Kazan' University has been the first in Russia to publish a scientific journal. Although meetings of Kazan' scientists took place regularly, twice a month, starting with 1842, an official scientific society has not been approved by the authorities until 1863, mainly because of political reasons. The author finally describes in some detail the activities of the physical- mathematical section (founded in 1884) of Kazan' scientific society, including a list of some of its publications. 300 papers have been presented at the meetings of this section between 1884 and 1889, and the Kazan' physical-mathematical society has been founded in 1890 based on the section. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0748.00025].

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