 According to some accounts, he graduated from the Slavic Greek Latin Academy in Moscow.From 1701 and until his death, he taught arithmetic, geometry and trigonometry at the Moscow School of Mathematics and Navigation, becoming its director in 1716.In 1703, Magnitsky wrote his famous "Arithmetic" (Арифметика; 2,400 copies), which was used as the principal textbook on mathematics in Russia until the middle of the 18th century.