Diophantus

Diophantus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Διόφαντος). A mathematician of Alexandria, who, according to the most received opinion, was contemporary with the emperor Julian. This opinion is founded upon a passage of Abulfaraj, an Arabian author of the thirteenth century. He names, among the contemporaries of the emperor Julian , Diophantes (for Diophantus) as the author of a celebrated work...

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Diophantus in Wikipedia

Diophantus of Alexandria (Greek: Διόφαντος ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς. b. between 200 and 214 CE, d. between 284 and 298 CE), sometimes called "the father of algebra", was an Alexandrian Greek mathematician and the author of a series of books called Arithmetica. These texts deal with solving algebraic equations, many of which are now lost. In studying Arithmeti...

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