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Diophantus of Alexandria; A Study in the History of Greek Algebra (Classic Reprint)
Diophantus of Alexandria A Study in the History of Greek Algebra - Classic Reprint Author:Sir Thomas L. Heath THE first edition of this book, which was the first English — Diophantus, appeared in 1885, and has long been out of — print. Inquiries made for it at different times suggested to me — that it was a pity that a treatise so unique and in many respects — so attractive as the Arithmetica should once more have become — practically inaccessible to the Eng... more »lish reader. At the same time
I could not but recognise that, after twenty-five years in which so
much has been done for the history of mathematics, the book
needed to be brought up to date, Some matters which in 1885
were still subject of controversy, such as the date of Diophantus,
may be regarded as settled, and some points which then had to
be laboured can now be dismissed more briefly. Practically the
whole of the Introduction, except the chapters on the editions of
Diophantus, his methods of solution, and the porisms and other
assumptions found in his work, has been entirely rewritten and
much shortened, while the chapters on the methods and on the
porisms etc., have been made fuller than before.
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