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Definition of Diophantus
1. Noun. Greek mathematician who was the first to try to develop an algebraic notation (3rd century).
Definition of Diophantus
1. Proper noun. (mathematics) A Greek mathematician who first developed algebra ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Diophantus
Literary usage of Diophantus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Greek Mathematics by Thomas Little Heath (1921)
"In Heron the numerical solution c: equations is well established, so that Diophantus
was not tk first to treat equations algebraically. ..."
2. Diophantine Analysis by Robert Daniel Carmichael (1915)
"SOLUTION OF A CERTAIN PROBLEM FROM Diophantus In Book V of his Arithmetica ...
For this purpose Diophantus uses ua = a + 1. He then observes that the three ..."
3. A Short Account of the History of Mathematics by Walter William Rouse Ball (1901)
"This was Diophantus who introduced a system of abbreviations for those operations
and quantities which constantly recur, though in using them he observed ..."
4. The Number-system of Algebra: Treated Theoretically and Historically by Henry Burchard Fine (1890)
"Diophantus (300 AD ?). The last of the Greek mathematicians, Diophantus of
Alexandria, was a great algebraist. The period between him and Hero was not rich ..."
5. Lectures on Elementary Mathematics by Joseph Louis Lagrange (1898)
"I have still to remark in connexion with the work of Diophantus that he ...
However that may be, it will be seen that Diophantus regarded the rule of the ..."
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