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020 _a9783034606424
040 _cCUS
082 _a513
_bMES/
100 _aMeskens, Ad
245 0 _aTravelling mathematics: the fate of Diophantos' arithmetic/
_cAd Meskens
260 _aBoston:
_bBirkhauser,
_c2010.
300 _aix, 208 p. :
_bill., maps ;
_c24 cm.
440 _a(Science networks historical studies),
_vv. 41
505 _a1. 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.
650 _aArithmetic
650 _aMathematics
942 _cWB16