The Twilight Of Greek Mathematics: Diophantus Flashcards
1
Q
What contribed to the Decline of Alexadria?
A
Started off by rome conquering alexriad and burning down the libary and muesum.
Conqured by Invading Muslims
2
Q
Who was the father of algebra, and what did he do?
A
Diophantus was the “father” of Algebra
He freed algrbra/ numbers from geomerty
He used symbols in his equations for different system.
3
Q
What book did Diophantus write?
A
Diophantus wrote Arithematic. This consisted of 13 books, however only 6 books survived
4
Q
What did Diophantus insiprer?
A
Diophantus inspiried (pure) mathmetics with the “diophntus equations”.
5
Q
What is Fermet’s Conjective/ Thm?
A
x^n+y^n=z^n
there are solutions for n=1 and n=2
