Leonty Filippovich Magnitsky ( Russian : Леонтий Филиппович Магницкий ), born Telyatin ( Russian : Телятин ; June 9, 1669, in Ostashkov – October 19, 1739, in Moscow ) was a Russian mathematician and educator .
4-461: Magnitsky is a Russian surname of Orthodox clergy. Notable people with the surname include: Leonty Magnitsky (1669–1739), Russian mathematician Sergei Magnitsky (1972–2009), Russian auditor See also [ edit ] Magnitsky Act Magnitsky legislation [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with the surname Magnitsky . If an internal link intending to refer to
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12-417: The middle of the 18th century. Mikhail Lomonosov was himself taught by this book, which he called the "gates to his own erudition". In 1703, Magnitsky also produced a Russian edition of Adriaan Vlacq 's log tables called Таблицы логарифмов и синусов, тангенсов и секансов (Tables of logarithms , sines , tangents , and secants ). Legend has it that Leonty Magnitsky was nicknamed Magnitsky by Peter
16-666: Was born into a peasant family. According to some accounts, he graduated from the Slavic Greek Latin Academy in Moscow. From 1701 and until his death, he taught arithmetic , geometry and trigonometry at the Moscow School of Mathematics and Navigation , becoming its director in 1716. In 1703, Magnitsky wrote his famous Arithmetic (Арифметика; 2,400 copies), which was used as the principal textbook on mathematics in Russia until
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