University of St Andrews Diophantus's Riddle Diophantus' epitaph, by E. Weisstein Norbert Schappacher (2005). Diophantus of Alexandria : a Text and...
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Diophantus is a lunar impact crater that lies in the southwestern part of the Mare Imbrium. It was named after ancient Greek mathematician Diophantus...
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by enthusiasts of Diophantus who imprisoned him in a cell until he took an oath to become Diophantus' student. His oath to Diophantus did not prohibit...
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Diophantus' mother and two servants witnessed this occurrence. The women dressed Diophantus in the typical feminine way, imagining that Diophantus had...
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History of algebra (section Diophantus)
Diophantus, similar to medieval arabic algebra is an aggregation of objects of different types with no operations present For example, in Diophantus a...
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is an Ancient Greek text on mathematics written by the mathematician Diophantus (c. 200/214 AD – c. 284/298 AD) in the 3rd century AD. It is a collection...
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Number theory (section Diophantus)
geometrical terms, Diophantus did what we would now call basic algebraic geometry in purely algebraic terms. In modern language, what Diophantus did was to find...
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Diophantus (Greek: Διόφαντος Dióphantos), son of Asclepiodorus, of Sinope, was a general in the service of Mithridates VI of Pontus. Diophantus was active...
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Diophantine equation, named for the 3rd-century Alexandrian mathematician, Diophantus, who studied them and developed methods for the solution of some kinds...
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book of Arithmetica by Diophantus (c. 200/214 AD – c. 284/298 AD) is to divide a square into a sum of two squares. Diophantus takes the square to be 16...
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Hinduism (approximate date). Cyprian, Roman bishop and writer (d. 258) Diophantus, Greek mathematician and writer Marcus Claudius Tacitus, Roman emperor...
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this book. Diophantus of Alexandria studied equations of this type in the second century AD. Scholarly opinion has generally held that Diophantus only found...
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of algebra" than Diophantus because al-Khwarizmi is the first to teach algebra in an elementary form and for its own sake, Diophantus is primarily concerned...
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neither Diophantus nor the Hindus excelled.": 228 "In a sense, Khwarizmi is more entitled to be called "the father of algebra" than Diophantus because...
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Diophantine refers to the Hellenistic mathematician of the 3rd century, Diophantus of Alexandria, who made a study of such equations and was one of the first...
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work among colleagues. Later mathematicians in the Roman era include Diophantus (c. 214–298 AD), who wrote on polygonal numbers and a work in pre-modern...
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equations and formulas. Diophantus (3rd century) and al-Khwarizmi (9th century) were the two main precursors of algebra. Diophantus solved some equations...
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éléments arithmétiques, and a Latin translation of the Arithmetica of Diophantus (the very translation where Fermat wrote a margin note about Fermat's...
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Papilio diophantus is a member of the fuscus species-group. The members of this clade are Papilio albinus Wallace, 1865 Papilio diophantus Grose-Smith...
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adaequalitas, adaequare, etc., which he says he has borrowed from Diophantus. As Diophantus V.11 shows, it means an approximate equality, and this is indeed...
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'completely unoriginal.'" Cameron also insists that "Hypatia's work on Diophantus was what we today might call a school edition, designed for the use of...
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Pontus. This transition was arranged by one of Mithridates's generals, Diophantus, who earlier had been sent to Taurica to help local Greek cities against...
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number theory, which he described in a note at the margin of a copy of Diophantus' Arithmetica. He was also a lawyer at the Parlement of Toulouse, France...
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Algebraic number theory (section Diophantus)
Diophantine equations, named after the 3rd-century Alexandrian mathematician, Diophantus, who studied them and developed methods for the solution of some kinds...
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titled Volume I, From Thales to Euclid and Volume II, From Aristarchus to Diophantus. It got positive reviews and is still used today. Ten years later, in...
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Diophantus, and just to the northwest of the ridge designated Mons Delisle. Between Delisle and Diophantus is a sinuous rille named Rima Diophantus,...
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attempted to besiege Chersonesos but was defeated by Pontic forces under Diophantus. Enlisting the assistance of the Rhoxolani under Tasius, Palacus launched...
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Diophantine means pertaining to the ancient Greek mathematician Diophantus. A number of concepts bear this name: Look up diophantine in Wiktionary, the...
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} The identity is also known as the Diophantus identity, as it was first proved by Diophantus of Alexandria. It is a special case of Euler's...
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first reference in a Western work was in the 3rd century AD in Greece. Diophantus referred to the equation equivalent to 4x + 20 = 0 (the solution is negative)...
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