Semyon Kirillovich Kotelnikov
Semjon Kirillowitsch Kotelnikow ( Russian Семён Кириллович Котельников ; * 1723 in St. Petersburg ; † April 1 July / April 13, 1806 greg. Ibid) was a Russian mathematician and university professor .
Life
Kotelnikow, son of a Preobrazhensk bodyguard , attended the school of Archbishop Theophan Prokopowitsch in St. Petersburg from 1734 . In 1738 he entered the Alexander Nevsky seminary . In 1741 he was transferred to the Academy-Gymnasium of the Academy-University of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences , and in 1742 he began studying at the Academy-University. After writing the dissertation De rectificatione et quadratura conchoidis per tangentem , he was appointed academy adjunct and sent abroad for further training. He went to Berlin in 1752 and studied with Leonhard Euler until 1756. After his return to St. Petersburg, he became an associate professor at the chair for higher mathematics at the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences. In 1760 he received the full professorship.
In 1761 Kotelnikow became inspector of the academy high school. He developed plans to reform the Academy-Gymnasium and the Academy-University, whereupon he lost the inspectorate in 1766. He headed the geography department, the library and the art chamber . He also taught mathematics and navigation at the Marine Cadet Corps . He published the chronicles of the Novgorod Church of the Resurrection and the Novgorod Cathedral of St. Sophia . He took part in the work of the Commission for Strengthening Popular Education.
Kotelnikov wrote mostly Latin Events ( Phaenomenorum iris seu arcus coelestis Disquisitio , De aequilibrio Virium corporibus applicatarum commentatio , De commoda acus declinatoriae suspensione Dissertatiuncula ), a Russian monograph on the balance and movement of bodies , a mathematics textbook (1763), a geodesy - Textbook (1766) and others. In 1969 he observed the Venus transit in front of the sun in St. Petersburg together with Johann Albrecht Euler , Christian Mayer and Anders Johan Lexell . In 1783 he became a member of the now Russian Academy of Sciences.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Котельников (Семен Кириллович) . In: Brockhaus-Efron . tape XVI , 1895, p. 428 ( Wikisource [accessed November 6, 2017]).
- ↑ RAN: Котельников Семен (Симеон) Кириллович (accessed November 6, 2017).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kotelnikow, Semyon Kirillovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Котельников, Семён Кириллович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian astronomer, mathematician and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1723 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Petersburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 13, 1806 |
| Place of death | St. Petersburg |