Luzin's students referred to their community in Moscow during the 1920s as Luzin's Paradise, often nicknamed "Luzitania". I'm surprised the article didn't mention the
"Luzin affair" : http://old.math.nsc.ru/LBRT/g2/english/ssk/case_e.html
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William Kingdon Clifford called Lobachevsky the "Copernicus of Geometry" due to the revolutionary character of his work.
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