Fragmentum [Sp.] (e cod. Paris. suppl. gr. 387, fol. 181r)
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Diophantus Alexandrinus
Diophantus Alexandrinus
c. 210 CE–c. 290 CE · Alexandria
Diophantus of Alexandria was a Greek mathematician, most probably active in the 3rd century CE, often called 'the father of algebra.' His principal work, the 'Arithmetica,' is a collection of problems solved with what became known as Diophantine equations, seeking whole-number or rational solutions, and it strongly influenced later mathematics, including the work of Fermat. His dates are not securely known.
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Alexandria is the main Mediterranean port of northern Egypt and the country's second city. Founded by Alexander the Great in 331 BCE, it became the capital of the Ptolemies, whose Museum and Great Library made it the leading centre of Hellenistic learning. It also held one of the largest Jewish communities of antiquity, where the Greek Bible translation known as the Septuagint was produced and Philo wrote. Church tradition traces its patriarchate to Mark the Evangelist, and its catechetical school was led by Clement and Origen. Arab forces under Amr ibn al-As took the city in 641, and it remained a commercial and scholarly hub of the Islamic world; the Sufi master Ibn Ata Allah al-Iskandari was born there.
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