Diophantus
Matematikawan Yunani Aleksandria
Diophantus dari Alexandria (bahasa Yunani Kuno: Διόφαντος ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς; diyakini lahir antara 201 dan 215 M; wafat pada usia 84 tahun, diyakini antara 285 dan 299 M) adalah seorang matematikawan Helenistik Aleksandria. Ia adalah seorang penulis seri buku berjudul Arithmetica, beberapa diantaranya sekarang hilang. Buku tersebut berisi soal pemecahan persamaan aljabar.
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| Nama dalam bahasa asli | (grc) Διόφαντος ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς |
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| Biografi | |
| Kelahiran | (grc) Διόφαντος k. 200 (Kalender Masehi Gregorius) Aleksandria (Romawi Kuno) |
| Kematian | k. 284 (83/84 tahun) Aleksandria (Romawi Kuno) |
| Kegiatan | |
| Spesialisasi | Teori bilangan |
| Pekerjaan | matematikawan |
| Periode | Kekaisaran Romawi |
| Periode aktif | (Floruit (en)  : 3 abad ) |
| Karya kreatif | |
Karya terkenal
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Terkadang Diophantus disebut sebagai "bapak aljabar".
Catatan
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sunting- Allard, A. "Les scolies aux arithmétiques de Diophante d'Alexandrie dans le Matritensis Bibl.Nat.4678 et les Vatican Gr.191 et 304" Byzantion 53. Brussels, 1983: 682-710.
- Bachet de Méziriac, C.G. Diophanti Alexandrini Arithmeticorum libri sex et De numeris multangulis liber unus. Paris: Lutetiae, 1621.
- Bashmakova, Izabella G. Diophantos. Arithmetica and the Book of Polygonal Numbers. Introduction and Commentary Translation by I.N. Veselovsky. Moscow: Nauka [in Russian].
- Christianidis, J. "Maxime Planude sur le sens du terme diophantien "plasmatikon"", Historia Scientiarum, 6 (1996)37-41.
- Christianidis, J. "Une interpretation byzantine de Diophante", Historia Mathematica, 25 (1998) 22-28.
- Czwalina, Arthur. Arithmetik des Diophantos von Alexandria. Göttingen, 1952.
- Heath, Sir Thomas, Diophantos of Alexandria: A Study in the History of Greek Algebra, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1885, 1910.
- Robinson, D. C. and Luke Hodgkin. History of Mathematics, King's College London, 2003.
- Rashed, Roshdi. L’Art de l’Algèbre de Diophante. éd. arabe. Le Caire: Bibliothèque Nationale, 1975.
- Rashed, Roshdi. Diophante. Les Arithmétiques. Volume III: Book IV; Volume IV: Books V–VII, app., index. Collection des Universités de France. Paris (Société d’Édition “Les Belles Lettres”), 1984.
- Sesiano, Jacques. The Arabic text of Books IV to VII of Diophantus’ translation and commentary. Thesis. Providence: Brown University, 1975.
- Sesiano, Jacques. Books IV to VII of Diophantus’ Arithmetica in the Arabic translation attributed to Qusṭā ibn Lūqā, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 1982. ISBN 0-387-90690-8, doi:10.1007/978-1-4613-8174-7.
- Σταμάτης, Ευάγγελος Σ. Διοφάντου Αριθμητικά. Η άλγεβρα των αρχαίων Ελλήνων. Αρχαίον κείμενον – μετάφρασις – επεξηγήσεις. Αθήναι, Οργανισμός Εκδόσεως Διδακτικών Βιβλίων, 1963.
- Tannery, P. L. Diophanti Alexandrini Opera omnia: cum Graecis commentariis, Lipsiae: In aedibus B.G. Teubneri, 1893-1895 (online: vol. 1, vol. 2)
- Ver Eecke, P. Diophante d’Alexandrie: Les Six Livres Arithmétiques et le Livre des Nombres Polygones, Bruges: Desclée, De Brouwer, 1921.
- Wertheim, G. Die Arithmetik und die Schrift über Polygonalzahlen des Diophantus von Alexandria. Übersetzt und mit Anmerkungen von G. Wertheim. Leipzig, 1890.
Bacaan tambahan
sunting- Bashmakova, Izabella G. "Diophante et Fermat," Revue d'Histoire des Sciences 19 (1966), pp. 289–306
- Bashmakova, Izabella G. Diophantus and Diophantine Equations. Moscow: Nauka 1972 [in Russian]. German translation: Diophant und diophantische Gleichungen. Birkhauser, Basel/ Stuttgart, 1974. English translation: Diophantus and Diophantine Equations. Translated by Abe Shenitzer with the editorial assistance of Hardy Grant and updated by Joseph Silverman. The Dolciani Mathematical Expositions, 20. Mathematical Association of America, Washington, DC. 1997.
- Bashmakova, Izabella G. “Arithmetic of Algebraic Curves from Diophantus to Poincaré,” Historia Mathematica 8 (1981), 393-416.
- Bashmakova, Izabella G., Slavutin, E.I. History of Diophantine Analysis from Diophantus to Fermat. Moscow: Nauka 1984 [in Russian].
- Heath, Sir Thomas (1981). A history of Greek mathematics. 2. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.
- Rashed, Roshdi, Houzel, Christian. Les Arithmétiques de Diophante: Lecture historique et mathématique, Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2013.
- Rashed, Roshdi, Histoire de l’analyse diophantienne classique: D’Abū Kāmil à Fermat, Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter.
- Vogel, Kurt (1970). "Diophantus of Alexandria". Dictionary of Scientific Biography. 4. New York: Scribner.
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- Diophantus's Riddle Diophantus' epitaph, by E. Weisstein
- Norbert Schappacher (2005). Diophantus of Alexandria: a Text and its History.
- Review of Sesiano's Diophantus Review of J. Sesiano, Books IV to VII of Diophantus' Arithmetica, by Jan P. Hogendijk
- Latin translation from 1575 by Wilhelm Xylander