Diophantus (general)

problems of Diophantus prepared the ground for the modern theory of equations. Tobias Dantzig, Number: The Language of Science (1930). Diophantus was the

theorems, are with Diophantus the simplest consequences of the algebraic laws of operation. In this work [Arithmetica of Diophantus] is introduced the

the proposed limits. Sometimes... Diophantus solves a problem wholly or in part by synthesis. ...Although ...Diophantus does not treat his problems generally

Diophantus was known to them. They made, however, no progress beyond equations of the first and second degree. In the work of Paciolus... the general

number theory, which he described in a note at the margin of a copy of Diophantus' Arithmetica. He was also a lawyer at the Parlement of Toulouse, France