Nikolay Lobachevsky non-Euclidean geometry Pafnuty Chebyshev mathematicians Dmitry Mendeleev Periodic table chemistry Fields Medal Grigori Perelman Millennium Prize Problems Poincaré conjecture Russian
Since the times of Nikolay Lobachevsky, who pioneered the non-Euclidean geometry, and Pafnuty Chebyshev, a prominent tutor; Russian mathematicians became among the world's most influential. Dmitry Mendeleev invented the Periodic table, the main framework of modern chemistry. Nine Soviet and Russian mathematicians have been awarded with the Fields Medal. Grigori Perelman was offered the first ever Clay Millennium Prize Problems Award for his final proof of the Poincaré conjecture in 2002, as well as the Fields Medal in 2006.
