Diophantus alexandria biography
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Diophantus of Alexandria
There are a few limits which can be put on the dates of Diophantus's life. On the one grabb Diophantus quotes the definition of a polygonal number from the work of Hypsicles so he must have written this later than BC. On the other grabb Theon of Alexandria, the father of Hypatia, quotes one of Diophantus's definitions so this means that Diophantus wrote no later than AD. However this leaves a span of years, so we have not narrowed down Diophantus's dates a great deal by these pieces of information.
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Diophantus of Alexandria (Greek: Διόφαντος ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς) (c. - c. C.E.) was a Hellenistic mathematician. He is sometimes called "the Father of Algebra," a title he shares with Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi. He is the author of a series of classical mathematical books called, The Arithmetica, and worked with equations which are now called Diophantine equations; the method to solve those problems is now called Diophantine analysis. The study of Diophantine equations is one of the central areas of number theory. Diophantus also authored a tract "On Polygonal Numbers" and a collection of propositions called Porisms. The findings and works of Diophantus have influenced mathematics greatly and caused many other questions to arise. The most famous of these is Fermat's Last Theorem.
Diophantus also made advances in mathematical notation a
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Diophantus was an Alexandrian Greek mathematician, born somewhere between and BC. Alexandria was the center of Greek culture and knowledge and Diophantus belonged to the ‘Silver Age’ of Alexandria. His life story is not known in detail however we do have some dates acquired from a mathematical puzzle known as ‘Diophantus’s Riddle’. He got married when he was 33, had a son who lived for 42 years and Diophantus’s age which according to the riddle was 84 when he died. While his personal life remains secluded his works in mathematics is recorded in ‘Arithmetika’ which originally had thirteen books out of which we only have six. The information from these books tell us that Diophantus studied from Babylonian teachers as his works are inspired from Greek and Babylonian observes.
Contribution to Mathematics
‘Arithmetika’ a major work of Diophantus, is considered to be the most noticeable and influential work done on algebra in Greek history. His style was very different; he never used