Diophantos of Alexandria

a study in the history of Greek algebra.

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University press
Language
English
Pages
248

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Table of Contents

I. Historical introduction.
II. The works of Diophantos; their titles and general contents; the portions which survive.
III. The writers upon Diophantos.
IV. Notation and definitions of Diophantos.
V. Diophantos' methods of solution.
VI. The porisms of Diophantos. Other theorems assumed or implied.
VII. How far was Diophantos original?
VIII. Diophantos and the early Arabian algebraists.
Appendix. Abstract of the Arithmetics and the Tract on polygonal numbers.

Edition Notes

"List of books or papers read or referred to, so far as they concern or are useful to the subject": p. [vii]-viii.

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Cambridge

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Library of Congress
QA31 .D52

The Physical Object

Pagination
xi, [1], 248 p.
Number of pages
248

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Open Library
OL6961897M
Internet Archive
diophantosalexa00heatgoog
LCCN
05035363
OCLC/WorldCat
2035723

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