Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- LIST OF BOOKS OR PAPERS READ OR REFERRED TO, SO FAR AS THEY CONCERN OR ARE USEFUL TO THE SUBJECT
- Contents
- ERRATUM
- CHAPTER I HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER II THE WORKS OF DIOPHANTOS; THEIR TITLES AND GENERAL CONTENTS; THE PORTIONS WHICH SURVIVE
- CHAPTER III THE WRITERS UPON DIOPHANTOS
- CHAPTER IV NOTATION AND DEFINITIONS OF DIOPHANTOS
- CHAPTER V DIOPHANTOS' METHODS OF SOLUTION
- CHAPTER VI
- CHAPTER VII HOW FAR WAS DIOPHANTOS ORIGINAL?
- CHAPTER VIII DIOPHANTOS AND THE EARLY ARABIAN ALGEBRAISTS
- ADDENDUM
- APPENDIX ABSTRACT OF DIOPHANTOS
- Arithmetics Book I
- Arithmetics Book II
- Arithmetics Book III
- Arithmetics Book IV
- Arithmetics Book V
- Arithmetics Book VI
- Polygonal Numbers
- INDEX
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- LIST OF BOOKS OR PAPERS READ OR REFERRED TO, SO FAR AS THEY CONCERN OR ARE USEFUL TO THE SUBJECT
- Contents
- ERRATUM
- CHAPTER I HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER II THE WORKS OF DIOPHANTOS; THEIR TITLES AND GENERAL CONTENTS; THE PORTIONS WHICH SURVIVE
- CHAPTER III THE WRITERS UPON DIOPHANTOS
- CHAPTER IV NOTATION AND DEFINITIONS OF DIOPHANTOS
- CHAPTER V DIOPHANTOS' METHODS OF SOLUTION
- CHAPTER VI
- CHAPTER VII HOW FAR WAS DIOPHANTOS ORIGINAL?
- CHAPTER VIII DIOPHANTOS AND THE EARLY ARABIAN ALGEBRAISTS
- ADDENDUM
- APPENDIX ABSTRACT OF DIOPHANTOS
- Arithmetics Book I
- Arithmetics Book II
- Arithmetics Book III
- Arithmetics Book IV
- Arithmetics Book V
- Arithmetics Book VI
- Polygonal Numbers
- INDEX
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- Diophantos of AlexandriaA Study in the History of Greek Algebra, pp. 189 - 208Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014