Q. Who is Diophantus and what did he do?
Diophantus was an Alexandrian Hellenistic mathematician which is also known as the father of algebra. He was the author of a series of books called Arithmetica that solved hundreds of algebraic equations, approximately five centuries after Euclid’s era.
Q. What is Diophantus number theory?
Diophantus was the first Greek mathematician who recognized fractions as numbers; thus he allowed positive rational numbers for the coefficients and solutions. In modern use, Diophantine equations are usually algebraic equations with integer coefficients, for which integer solutions are sought.
Q. How long did Diophantus live?
84 years
Diophantus lived to the age of 84 years.
Q. Who is the father of polynomial?
Greek Mathematician Diophantus of Alexandria is the father of polynomials.
Q. When did diophantus get married?
So he married at the age of 26 and had a son who died at the age of 42, four years before Diophantus himself died aged 84. Based on this information we have given him a life span of 84 years. The missing books were evidently lost at a very early date.
Q. What is the famous text written by diophantus and was originally written in 13 books?
Diophantus was a Hellenistic mathematician who lived circa 250 AD, but the uncertainty of this date is so great that it may be off by more than a century. He is known for having written Arithmetica, a treatise that was originally thirteen books but of which only the first six have survived.
Q. Who was Diophantus and what did he do?
Diophantus was a Hellenistic Greek (or possibly Egyptian, Jewish or even Chaldean) mathematician who lived in Alexandria during the 3rd Century CE. He is sometimes called “the father of algebra”, and wrote an influential series of books called the “Arithmetica”, a collection of algebraic problems which greatly…
Q. Why did Diophantus write the book Arithmetica?
Khayyam’s work with cubic equations gave him certainty that algebra and geometry are linked. Diophantus tells us at the beginning of his classic work Arithmetica that he has written it as a textbook to help his friend Dionysius (and others presumably) to solve mathematics problems.
Q. What was the life span of Diophantus MacTutor?
Based on this information we have given him a life span of 84 years. The Arithmetica is a collection of 130 problems giving numerical solutions of determinate equations (those with a unique solution), and indeterminate equations. The method for solving the latter is now known as Diophantine analysis.
Q. How old was Diophantus when he wrote Hypatia?
On the one hand Diophantus quotes the definition of a polygonal number from the work of Hypsicles so he must have written this later than 150 BC. On the other hand Theon of Alexandria, the father of Hypatia, quotes one of Diophantus’s definitions so this means that Diophantus wrote no later than 350 AD.
