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Sentence Examples
From this it was deduced that Diophantus wrote around 250 AD and the dates we have given for him are based on this argument.
Pierre de Fermat, claiming that he borrowed from Diophantus, introduced the concept of adequality, which represented equality up to an infinitesimal error term.
Examples from Classical Literature
The first instances of elliptic curves occur in the works of Diophantus and Fermat.
Algebra has its roots in ancient Babylonia and Egypt and in the work of Diophantus, a Greek who became known as the father of algebra.
With Pappus and diophantus the list of original writers on mathematics comes to an end.
He therefore rejected the view which was formerly held that diophantus lived in that century.
The germ of the idea is to be found in the works of diophantus of Alexandria, who wrote about the beginning of the fourth century.
She had written commentaries on the mathematical works of diophantus, and on the conic sections of Apollonius.
After his death his son published his edition of diophantus and his Varia opera mathematica.
One of these men, diophantus of Amphitrope by name, obtained a verdict against Aristeides on a charge of receiving bribes.
One of these was a commentary on the Arithmetica of diophantus.
Alexander said that this letter was a forgery of diophantus.
