Definition of Diophantus

1. Noun. Greek mathematician who was the first to try to develop an algebraic notation (3rd century).

Generic synonyms: Mathematician

Definition of Diophantus

1. Proper noun. (mathematics) A Greek mathematician who first developed algebra ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Diophantus

Diomedes
Dion
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Dione
Dionean
Dionysia
Dionysiac
Dionysian
Dionysius
Dionysius the Elder
Dionysos
Dionysus
Diophantine
Diophantine equation
Diophantine equations
Diophantus (current term)
Dior
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Dioscorea batata
Dioscorea bulbifera
Dioscorea elephantipes
Dioscorea paniculata
Dioscorea trifida
Dioscoreaceae
Dioscuri
Diospyros
Diospyros ebenum
Diospyros kaki
Diospyros kurzii
Diospyros lotus

Literary usage of Diophantus

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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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