Pyatosin, Joseph Stepanovich

Joseph Stepanovich Pyatosin was born into the family of a Belarusian peasant in the Bobruisk district of the Minsk province . He received his primary education at the parish school and at the Bobruisk four-year gymnasium. After graduating from the Minsk gymnasium, he entered the Department of Mathematics of the Physics and Mathematics Faculty of Moscow University , where he graduated in 1906 with a diploma of the first degree.

Vilensky period

After graduating from the university, Pyatosin I.S. was appointed a teacher of mathematics and physics in high school at the Shavelsky male gymnasium (the town of Shavli, Kovenskaya province , now Siauliai ). In 1910 he was transferred to Vilnius (now Vilnius ) as a teacher of mathematics and mathematics in the Vilnius Teachers' Institute . During his work in Vilna he taught, besides the institute , in other educational institutions, and also lectured in mathematics and mathematics in short-term summer courses for teachers of higher elementary schools.

Samara period

After the start of the First World War in 1914, I. S. Pyatosin, together with the institute, was evacuated to Samara . There, the Vilnius Teachers 'Institute was annexed to the already existing Samara Teachers' Institute. The latter was later transformed into a higher educational institution - the Samara Pedagogical Institute (now the Volga State Social and Humanitarian Academy ).

In Samara in 1917, I. S. Pyatosin was elected chairman of the pedagogical council of the institute. Teaching work I. S. Pyatosin led at the Department of Pure Mathematics . Subsequently, I. S. Pyatosin was elected head of the department for the training of teachers of the second stage.

In 1919 , the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics was opened at Samara State University, where I.S. Pyatosin was elected interim teacher of the Department of Pure Mathematics , and at the end of 1919 - 1920 academic year, he was appointed full-time teacher ( assistant professor ) of this department.

Jobs at Belarusian State University

In October 1921, in connection with the opening of the Belarusian State University, the People’s Commissariat of the BSSR invited I. S. Pyatosin, as a Belarusian specialist, to work at the Belarusian State University , initially to give lectures on mathematics at the medical faculty and to organize the teaching of mathematical sciences. He began work at the Belarusian State University on December 7, 1921 . At the Belarusian State University he worked as a teacher, associate professor , professor . The academic title of professor was approved in June 1932 . During the organizational period, he acted as dean of the faculty of pedagogy ( June - September ), worked as deputy dean of the faculty of pedagogy ( 1922 - 1924 ), head of the physical, mathematical and natural departments of the pedagogical faculty .

Courses taught

I. S. Pyatosin taught courses:

• introduction to analysis and differential calculus
• integral calculus
• differential geometry
• probability theory
• finite difference theory
• calculus of variations
• mathematics technique (for students of the physics and mathematics department)
• higher mathematics (for students of natural sciences)

Member of the Scientific Society

I. S. Pyatosin was an active member of the physics and mathematics section of the scientific society at Belarusian State University . At the meetings of this society, in particular, his following reports were heard:

• " Nikolai Copernicus and his theory",
• “The role and significance of F. Klein in the methodology of mathematics ”,
• " Bibliography of N. I. Lobachevsky and his works",
• "The value of I. Newton in the analysis of the infinitesimal ",
• "On the work of the analysis section at the 1st All-Russian Congress of Mathematicians in May 1927. "

Work in other universities in Belarus

I. S. Pyatosin worked at the Belarusian Energy Institute ( 1931 - 1933 ) and at the Belarusian Polytechnic Institute ( 1933 - 1938 ).

On May 16, 1938, he was arrested as an agent of Polish intelligence, on August 22, sentenced to capital punishment, shot on October 21, 1938. In 1956, rehabilitated.

I. S. Pyatosin took part in the work of mathematical congresses: All-Russian ( Moscow , 1927 ), First All-Union ( Kharkov , 1930 ), Second All-Union ( Leningrad , 1934 ), made presentations at All-Belarusian conferences of teachers of mathematics and physics.

At the 1st All-Belarusian Conference of Teachers of Mathematics and Physics ( Minsk , 1926 ), I. S. Pyatosin made a report “On the issue of setting up the teaching of mathematics at school”, and at the 3rd ( Minsk , 1934 ), the report “ Method Heaviside in the integration of differential equations. "

I. S. Pyatosin delivered lectures to public education workers in various cities of Belarus . For example, in 1923 in Gomel he gave two lectures:

• " Mathematics and its importance for natural science",
• "Modern methodological views on the teaching of the propaedeutic course of geometry."

I. S. Pyatosin took an active part in the work of the mathematical section of the Main Terminological Commission of the Institute of Belarusian Culture . The tasks of this section included improving the Belarusian terminology of elementary mathematics and creating the Belarusian terminology of higher mathematics. The section resulted in the publication of “Slovenika matematichny termіnalogіі” (Belarusian Scientific Terminology, Issue XIV, Minsk , 1927 ).

• Pyatosin Iosif Stsanavich // Represavaniya litaratara, navukoўtsy, working asvety, grammadskі і cultural dzejachy Belarus. 1794-1991. Skladalnіk Leanid Marakoў (Belarusian)