Nikolai Michailowitsch Bubnow

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Nikolai Bubnow 1928

Nikolai Mikhailovich Bubnov , Russian Николай Михайлович Бубнов , English transcription Nikolai Mikhailovich Bubnov, (born February 2, 1858 in Kiev ; † after July 17, 1939) was a Ukrainian mathematician who edited the letters and works of Sylvester II .

Bubnow studied history at the University of Saint Petersburg and received his doctorate there in 1891 with a dissertation on Gerbert's letters, for which he had visited archives in France, Italy, Germany, Austria and Switzerland. From 1890 to 1891 he taught at the high school for girls in Saint Petersburg and from 1892 he was professor of ancient and medieval history at the University of Kiev . In 1899, after further archival studies, he published Gerbert's mathematical works. In addition to Gerbert's treatise on the abacus, they also contain other related medieval texts and an appendix to the tradition of the Roman Corpus agrimensorum Romanorum ( i.e. the Roman surveyors).

After the October Revolution he went to Yugoslavia in 1919 , where he taught ancient history at the University of Ljubljana from 1920 to 1928 . He planned a French edition of Gerbert's letters, but died before that. His exact date of death is unknown (after July 17, 1939).

Encouraged by the fact that Gerbert used the Indo-Arabic numerical system on his abacus , he tried in several long essays to prove that this system was already rudimentarily known to the Greeks in ancient Europe; a view that is now considered obsolete.

Fonts

  • Sbornik pisem Geberta kakh istoritcheskij istotchnik, 2 volumes, Kiev 1888 to 1890 (Gerbert's letters)
  • Gerberti postea Silvestri II papae Opera mathematica (972-1003), Berlin 1899, reprint Hildesheim 1963
  • Arithmetic independence of European culture. A contribution to cultural history, Berlin 1914

literature

  • Joseph W. Dauben , Christoph J. Scriba (eds.): Writing the history of mathematics , Birkhäuser 2002, p. 385
  • Harriet Pratt Lattin: The origin of our present system of notation according to the theories of Nicholas Bubnov, Isis, Volume 19, 1933, pp. 181-194
  • Iaroslav Matviichine: Nicolas Boubnov commenteur de Gerbert: une édition non realisé, in: Gerbert l'Européenne, Actes du colloque d'Aurillac 4-7 juin 1996, Mémoires Société des lettres, sciences et arts La Haute Auvergne, 3, 1997, p 347-361

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SURNAME Bubnov, Nikolai Mikhailovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Бубнов, Николай Михайлович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiev
DATE OF DEATH after 1939