Diophantus

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1. Diophantus - Noun

2. Diophantus - Proper noun

Meaning

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

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Although Diophantus made important advances in symbolism, he still lacked the necessary notation to express more general methods. Source: Internet

Also in the 10th century, Abul Wafa translated the works of Diophantus into Arabic. Source: Internet

He had already studied Bachet 's edition of Diophantus carefully;sfn by 1643, his interests had shifted largely to Diophantine problems and sums of squaressfn (also treated by Diophantus). Source: Internet

Diophantus was always satisfied with a rational solution and did not require a whole number which means he accepted fractions as solutions to his problems. Source: Internet

Although The Porisms is lost, we know three lemmas contained there, since Diophantus refers to them in the Arithmetica. Source: Internet

Around AD 250, Diophantus considered the equation : where a and c are fixed numbers and x and y are the variables to be solved for. Source: Internet

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