page_title: Arithmetica
hierarchical_section_title: Arithmetica
context_page_description: Arithmetica is an Ancient Greek text on mathematics written by the mathematician Diophantus in the 3rd century AD. It is a collection of 130 algebraic problems giving numerical solutions of determinate equations and indeterminate equations.
context_section_description: Arithmetica (Greek: Ἀριθμητικά) is an Ancient Greek text on mathematics written by the mathematician Diophantus in the 3rd century AD.  It is a collection of 130 algebraic problems giving numerical solutions of determinate equations (those with a unique solution) and indeterminate equations.
caption: Cover of the 1621 edition, translated into Latin from Greek by Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac.
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