Diophantus

**Diophantus dari Alexandria** (; diyakini lahir antara 201 dan 215 M; wafat pada usia 84 tahun, diyakini antara 285 dan 299 M) adalah seorang matematikawan Helenistik Aleksandria. Ia adalah seorang penulis seri buku berjudul *[[Arithmetica]]*, beberapa diantaranya sekarang hilang. Buku tersebut berisi soal pemecahan persamaan aljabar.

Terkadang Diophantus disebut sebagai "bapak aljabar".

## Catatan

## Referensi
* Allard, A. "Les scolies aux arithmétiques de Diophante d'Alexandrie dans le Matritensis Bibl.Nat.4678 et les Vatican Gr.191 et 304" *Byzantion* 53. Brussels, 1983: 682-710.
* Bachet de Méziriac, C.G. *Diophanti Alexandrini Arithmeticorum libri sex et De numeris multangulis liber unus*. Paris: Lutetiae, 1621.
* Bashmakova, Izabella G. *Diophantos. Arithmetica and the Book of Polygonal Numbers. Introduction and Commentary* Translation by I.N. Veselovsky. Moscow: Nauka [in Russian].
* Christianidis, J. "Maxime Planude sur le sens du terme diophantien "plasmatikon"", *Historia Scientiarum*, 6 (1996)37-41.
* Christianidis, J. "Une interpretation byzantine de Diophante", *Historia Mathematica*, 25 (1998) 22-28.
* Czwalina, Arthur. *Arithmetik des Diophantos von Alexandria*. Göttingen, 1952.
* Heath, Sir Thomas, *Diophantos of Alexandria: A Study in the History of Greek Algebra*, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1885, 1910.
* Robinson, D. C. and Luke Hodgkin. *History of Mathematics*, King's College London, 2003.
* Rashed, Roshdi. *L’Art de l’Algèbre de Diophante*. éd. arabe. Le Caire: Bibliothèque Nationale, 1975.
* Rashed, Roshdi. *Diophante. Les Arithmétiques*. Volume III: Book IV; Volume IV: Books V–VII, app., index. Collection des Universités de France. Paris (Société d’Édition “Les Belles Lettres”), 1984.
* Sesiano, Jacques. *The Arabic text of Books IV to VII of Diophantus’ translation and commentary*. Thesis. Providence: Brown University, 1975.
* Sesiano, Jacques. *Books IV to VII of Diophantus’ Arithmetica in the Arabic translation attributed to Qusṭā ibn Lūqā*, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 1982. , .
* Σταμάτης, Ευάγγελος Σ. *Διοφάντου Αριθμητικά. Η άλγεβρα των αρχαίων Ελλήνων. Αρχαίον κείμενον – μετάφρασις – επεξηγήσεις*. Αθήναι, Οργανισμός Εκδόσεως Διδακτικών Βιβλίων, 1963.
* Tannery, P. L. *Diophanti Alexandrini Opera omnia: cum Graecis commentariis*, Lipsiae: In aedibus B.G. Teubneri, 1893-1895 (online: vol. 1, vol. 2)
* Ver Eecke, P. *Diophante d’Alexandrie: Les Six Livres Arithmétiques et le Livre des Nombres Polygones*, Bruges: Desclée, De Brouwer, 1921.
* Wertheim, G. *Die Arithmetik und die Schrift über Polygonalzahlen des Diophantus von Alexandria*. Übersetzt und mit Anmerkungen von G. Wertheim. Leipzig, 1890.

## Bacaan tambahan
* Bashmakova, Izabella G. "Diophante et Fermat," *Revue d'Histoire des Sciences* 19 (1966), pp.&nbsp;289–306
* Bashmakova, Izabella G. *Diophantus and Diophantine Equations*. Moscow: Nauka 1972 [in Russian]. German translation: *Diophant und diophantische Gleichungen*. Birkhauser, Basel/ Stuttgart, 1974. English translation: *Diophantus and Diophantine Equations*. Translated by Abe Shenitzer with the editorial assistance of Hardy Grant and updated by Joseph Silverman. The Dolciani Mathematical Expositions, 20. Mathematical Association of America, Washington, DC. 1997.
* Bashmakova, Izabella G. “Arithmetic of Algebraic Curves from Diophantus to Poincaré,” *Historia Mathematica* 8 (1981), 393-416.
* Bashmakova, Izabella G., Slavutin, E.I. *History of Diophantine Analysis from Diophantus to Fermat*. Moscow: Nauka 1984 [in Russian].
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* Rashed, Roshdi, Houzel, Christian. *Les Arithmétiques de Diophante: Lecture historique et mathématique*, Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2013.
* Rashed, Roshdi, *Histoire de l’analyse diophantienne classique: D’Abū Kāmil à Fermat*, Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter.
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## Pranala luar

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* Diophantus's Riddle Diophantus' epitaph, by E. Weisstein
* Norbert Schappacher (2005). Diophantus of Alexandria: a Text and its History.
* Review of Sesiano's Diophantus Review of J. Sesiano, Books IV to VII of Diophantus' Arithmetica, by Jan P. Hogendijk
* [Latin translation from 1575 by [Wilhelm Xylander]]