Arithmetica

	Cover of the 1621 edition, translated into Latin from Greek by Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac.
Author	Diophantus

Arithmetica (Greek: Ἀριθμητικά) is an Ancient Greek text on mathematics written by the mathematician Diophantus (c. 200/214 AD – c. 284/298 AD) in the 3rd century AD. It is a collection of 130 algebraic problems giving numerical solutions of determinate equations (those with a unique solution) and indeterminate equations.

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