Travelling mathematics: the fate of Diophantos' arithmetic/
Ad Meskens
- Boston: Birkhauser, 2010.
- ix, 208 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
- (Science networks historical studies), v. 41 .
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.