Diophantos of Alexandria
Subtitle: a study in the history of Greek algebra.
By: By T. L. Heath ...  Edited for the syndics of the University press.
Publisher: University press
Published: 1885
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
Subjects: Diophantus, of Alexandria; Mathematics, Greek
Notes: "List of books or papers read or referred to, so far as they concern or are useful to the subject": p. [vii]-viii.
Table of contents: title: I. Historical introduction.; title: II. The works of Diophantos; their titles and general contents; the portions which survive.; title: III. The writers upon Diophantos.; title: IV. Notation and definitions of Diophantos.; title: V. Diophantos' methods of solution.; title: VI. The porisms of Diophantos. Other theorems assumed or implied.; title: VII. How far was Diophantos original?; title: VIII. Diophantos and the early Arabian algebraists.; title: Appendix. Abstract of the Arithmetics and the Tract on polygonal numbers.