Travelling mathematics-- the fate of Diophantos' arithmetic [electronic resource] / Ad Meskens.
Saved in:
| Online Access: |
Full Text (via Springer) |
|---|---|
| Main Author: | |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Basel :
Birkhäuser,
©2010.
|
| Series: | Science networks historical studies ;
v. 41. |
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- 1. Arithmetic and the beginnings of algebra
- 2. Alexandria ad Aegyptum
- 3. Diophantos and the Arithmetika
- 4. Sleeping beauty in the Dark Ages
- 5. New vistas
- 6. Humanism
- 7. Renaissance or the rebirth of Diophantos
- 8. Fair stood the wind for France.
- 9. Coda: Hilbert's tenth problem
- 10. Stemma.