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Travelling mathematics: the fate of Diophantos' arithmetic/ Ad Meskens

By: Meskens, AdMaterial type: Text

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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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section	513 MES / (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		P25301

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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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