Travelling mathematics : the fate of Diophantos' arithmetic / Ad Meskens.
Pubblicazione:
[Basel?] : Birkhäuser, c2010.
Descrizione fisica:
IX, 208 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Serie:
Science networks. Historical studies ; 41
Contiene:
Indice: 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. Bibliography. Index
