Sergei Volchkov (Russian Academy of Sciences)

Sergei Savvich Volchkov (Russian: Сергей Саввич Волчков; 1707–1773) was a Russian printer, lexicographer, translator.

Volchkov made the first major Russian translations of Baltasar Gracian and Montaigne,[1] and was assigned to the Imperial Academy of Sciences in 1736.[2]

Selected works

Teusch- Lateinisch- und Ruszisches Lexicon, Ehrenreich Weissmann, Sergei Savvich Volchkov - 1731

gollark: When substituting into this, you replace all instances of "b" with the value of "b".

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gollark: That looks like the quadratic formula.

gollark: Are you just substituting into the quadratic formula?

gollark: I'm pretty sure it is just modulo some prime for this. The Wikipedia article explains that this is done to avoid providing some information about the other points via the shape of the graph or something.

References

Vladimir Ėmmanuilovich Grabarʹ, William Elliott Butler The History of International Law in Russia, 1647-1917 1990 Page 110 "A qualified one was Sergei Savvich Volchkov, who was 'assigned to the Academy of Sciences' as a translator and who translated Baltasar Gracian [G162] and Montaigne [M205]."
Russia and the World of the Eighteenth Century ed. Roger P. Bartlett, Anthony Glenn Cross, Karen Rasmussen - 1988 "Sergei Savvich Volchkov (1707-73) was added in 1736, and probably at the same time so was Johann-Kaspar Taubert (1717-71), who like Shvanitz had been born in Russia of German parents."

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[1] Vladimir Ėmmanuilovich Grabarʹ, William Elliott Butler The History of International Law in Russia, 1647-1917 1990 Page 110 "A qualified one was Sergei Savvich Volchkov, who was 'assigned to the Academy of Sciences' as a translator and who translated Baltasar Gracian [G162] and Montaigne [M205]."

[2] Russia and the World of the Eighteenth Century ed. Roger P. Bartlett, Anthony Glenn Cross, Karen Rasmussen - 1988 "Sergei Savvich Volchkov (1707-73) was added in 1736, and probably at the same time so was Johann-Kaspar Taubert (1717-71), who like Shvanitz had been born in Russia of German parents."