Travelling mathematics: the fate of Diophantos' arithmetic/ Ad Meskens
Material type: TextSeries: (Science networks historical studies) ; v. 41Publication details: Boston: Birkhauser, 2010Description: ix, 208 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN: 9783034606424Subject(s): Arithmetic | MathematicsDDC classification: 513
Contents:
1. Arithmetic and the beginnings of algebra --
2. Alexandria ad Aegyptum --
3. Diophantos and the Arithmetika --
4. Sleeping beauty in the Dark Ages --
5. New vistas --
6. Humanism --
7. Renaissance or the rebirth of Diophantos --
8. Fair stood the wind for France. --
9. Coda: Hilbert's tenth problem --
10. Stemma.
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1. Arithmetic and the beginnings of algebra --
2. Alexandria ad Aegyptum --
3. Diophantos and the Arithmetika --
4. Sleeping beauty in the Dark Ages --
5. New vistas --
6. Humanism --
7. Renaissance or the rebirth of Diophantos --
8. Fair stood the wind for France. --
9. Coda: Hilbert's tenth problem --
10. Stemma.
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