Diophantos of Alexandria a Study in the History of Greek Algebra
The author of this work Sir Thomas Little Heath was a man of many facets: a British civil servant, mathematician, classical scholar, historian of ancient Greek mathematics, translator, and mountaineer. He devoted this 1885 book to an Alexandrian Greek mathematician and the author of a series of books called “Arithmetica”. “It would be natural to hope to find, under this head, references to the works of earlier or contemporary mathematicians. Unfortunately there is only one such reference traceable in Diophantos’ extant writings.”
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