Marina Vulis, University of New Haven
Philadelphia Area Seminar on the History of Mathematics (PASHoM)
Friday, March 20, 2009, 1:00 am EDT
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Place: Villanova University
In 1703, Leonty Magnitsky, a mathematics teacher at a Moscow school, published the book "Arithmetika, i.e. the Science of Numbers". This was the first Russian mathematics textbook written by a Russian author. This presentation will discuss the contents of "Arifmetika" and the story of its publication.