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Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 6:00pm

Marina Vulis

Independent Scholar, NYC

Location

Villanova University

103 Mendel Hall

Light supper available at 6 p.m. for $10 (optional)

In 1703, Leonty Magnitsky, a mathematics teacher at a Moscow school, published the book "Arifmetika, 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.