Diophantus
Britishnoun
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Diophantus of Alexandria used a syncopated algebra in his great work Arithmetica.
From Scientific American • Aug. 10, 2023
Though Diophantus provided a solution, which is x = ½ and y = 9 ⁄ 16, Balakrishnan says that until 1998, it was unknown how many other solutions existed.
From Scientific American • Oct. 14, 2021
For some of these ancient questions, including ones posed by Diophantus himself, “we’re only just now developing methods that can help answer them,” says Jennifer Balakrishnan, a mathematician at Boston University.
From Scientific American • Oct. 14, 2021
Researchers have been using tools from geometry to tackle the problems, which are named after Diophantus, a third-century Greek mathematician.
From Scientific American • Oct. 14, 2021
And further, it is true that many men have come to possess great influence with you at particular times—Callistratus, and again Aristophon, Diophantus, and others before them.
From The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 1 by Pickard, Arthur Wallace
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