Meskens, Ad

Travelling mathematics: the fate of Diophantos' arithmetic/ Ad Meskens - Boston: Birkhauser, 2010. - ix, 208 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. - (Science networks historical studies), v. 41 .

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.

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