Diophantus
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Diophantus & Arithmetica
In the silver age in Alexandria around the 250 Diophantus, “the father of algebra” was born, he was a Greek algebraist, his life is quite amystery, few information is know about him, like that he was married at 26 years old, and has one son who died at the age of 42, when he was 80, just four years before his owndeath. the best way and more precisely way to know about him is with a poem that was made by himself:
"Here lies Diophantus." The wonder behold- Through art algebraic, thestone tells how old: "God gave him his boyhood one-sixth of his life, One-twelfth more as youth while whiskers grew rife; And then yet one-seventh eve marriage begun; Infive years there came a bouncing new son. Alas, the dear child of master and sage Met fate at just half his dad's final age. Four years yet his studies gave solace from grief;Then leaving scenes earthly he, too found relief."
The answer is 84 years old
He studied four years in a university of Alexandria, his greatest contribution to math isArithmetica, a collection of 13 books which contains almost 150 different algebra problems, this one can be solved by a unique method called the Diophantine method, butunfortunately only six have survived. He also introduced the syncopathic style of algebraic writing, to write polynomials as a single unknown.
Conclusion: in the Silver Age,or the Later Alexandrian Age, the mathematicians were interested in discover new ideas, and procedures, to solve the incognitos and decipher new concepts, the silver age comeafter the golden age, that was the reason why the interest of this persons was growing so much that made them to search the way to solve daily problems in an easier way
In the silver age in Alexandria around the 250 Diophantus, “the father of algebra” was born, he was a Greek algebraist, his life is quite amystery, few information is know about him, like that he was married at 26 years old, and has one son who died at the age of 42, when he was 80, just four years before his owndeath. the best way and more precisely way to know about him is with a poem that was made by himself:
"Here lies Diophantus." The wonder behold- Through art algebraic, thestone tells how old: "God gave him his boyhood one-sixth of his life, One-twelfth more as youth while whiskers grew rife; And then yet one-seventh eve marriage begun; Infive years there came a bouncing new son. Alas, the dear child of master and sage Met fate at just half his dad's final age. Four years yet his studies gave solace from grief;Then leaving scenes earthly he, too found relief."
The answer is 84 years old
He studied four years in a university of Alexandria, his greatest contribution to math isArithmetica, a collection of 13 books which contains almost 150 different algebra problems, this one can be solved by a unique method called the Diophantine method, butunfortunately only six have survived. He also introduced the syncopathic style of algebraic writing, to write polynomials as a single unknown.
Conclusion: in the Silver Age,or the Later Alexandrian Age, the mathematicians were interested in discover new ideas, and procedures, to solve the incognitos and decipher new concepts, the silver age comeafter the golden age, that was the reason why the interest of this persons was growing so much that made them to search the way to solve daily problems in an easier way
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