Jean Christianidis, Jeffrey Oaks

The Arithmetica of Diophantus (eBook, PDF)

A Complete Translation and Commentary

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This volume offers an English translation of all ten extant books of Diophantus' Arithmetica, alongside a comprehensive conceptual, historical, and mathematical commentary. Of interest to scholars of history from ancient Greece to the Renaissance, historians of mathematics, science, and technology, and mathematicians.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 890
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351694971
• Artikelnr.: 66305896

Autorenporträt

Jean Christianidis is a professor of history of mathematics at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece) and partner member of the Centre Alexandre-Koyré (Paris, France). He has authored or co-authored numerous articles on Diophantus and on Greek and Byzantine mathematics.

Jeffrey Oaks is a mathematics professor at University of Indianapolis (USA). He is co-author of the 2021 book Al-Hawari's Essential Commentary: Arabic Arithmetic in the Fourteenth Century.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Introduction, 1. Diophantus and his work, 2. Numbers, problem solving, and algebra, 3. History, 4. Structure and language of the Arithmetica, 5. The didactic aspect of the Arithmetica, Part II: Translation, Part III: Commentary, Part IV: Appendices.

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Part I: Introduction
1. Diophantus and his work
2. Numbers
problem solving
and algebra
3. History
4. Structure and language of the Arithmetica
5. The didactic aspect of the Arithmetica
Part II: Translation
Part III: Commentary
Part IV: Appendices.