Viktor Viktorovich Bobynin
Viktor Wiktorowitsch Bobynin ( Russian Виктор Викторович Бобынин , English transcription Victor Bobynin; born November 8, 1849 in the village of Schily, Ujesd Roslavl , Smolensk Governorate , Russian Empire ; † November 25, 1919 in Tula ) was a Russian historian and mathematician.
Bobynin came from a small nobility and attended grammar school in Tula from 1860 to 1867. Then he studied at Lomonosov University in Moscow, graduating in 1872. As a teacher at the military school in Nizhny Novgorod , he began to be interested in the history of mathematics. In 1881 he returned to Moscow and received his doctorate there in 1882 with a thesis on mathematics in ancient Egypt. He then was a private lecturer at Lomonossow University, where he taught history of mathematics until his death, changing the course content annually. He published the first journal of history of science and mathematics in Russia (physical and mathematical sciences past and present). The printing was partly financed by himself and the magazine also contained many contributions from him. He also published in the Bibliotheca Mathematica by Gustaf Eneström . For the fourth volume of the lectures on the history of mathematics by Moritz Cantor , he wrote the chapter elementary geometry in the 18th century in 1908.
He was also interested in ethno-mathematics (for example with Russian farmers) and in his dissertation on the Rhind papyrus (the Moscow papyrus had not yet been discovered) he was also interested in the emergence of mathematical knowledge from the people.
He published extensive bibliographies on mathematics in Russia and numerous biographies.
literature
- Joseph W. Dauben , Christoph J. Scriba (eds.): Writing the history of mathematics , Birkhäuser 2002, pp. 367-368
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| SURNAME | Bobynin, Viktor Viktorovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Бобынин, Виктор Викторович |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 8, 1849 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schily, Smolensk Governorate |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 25, 1919 |
| Place of death | Tula |