Leonty Filippovich Magnitsky, born Telyatin in Ostashkov on 9 June 1669 and dead in Moscow on 19 October 1739, was a Russian mathematician and educator. Born into a peasant family, he may have graduated from the Slavic Greek Latin Academy in Moscow. From 1701 until his death he taught arithmetic, geometry and trigonometry at the Moscow School of Mathematics and Navigation, becoming its director in 1716. In 1703 he wrote his famous Arithmetic, printed in 2,400 copies, which was the principal mathematics textbook in Russia until the middle of the eighteenth century and which Mikhail Lomonosov called the gates to his own erudition. In the same year he produced a Russian edition of Adriaan Vlacq's tables of logarithms, sines, tangents and secants. Legend says that Peter the Great gave him the name Magnitsky, as a people's magnet, and for his teaching he was ennobled in 1704.
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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.
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Home Biographies History Topics Map Curves Search Leonty Filippovich Magnitsky Quick Info Born 9 June 1669 Ostashkov, Russia Died 30 October 1739 Moscow, Russia Summary Leonty Magnitsky was a Russian teacher who wrote the first guide to mathematics
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He was born on lands where his father worked near Tver which is situated in western Russia at the confluence of the upper Volga and Tvertsa rivers.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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