The Arithmetica of Diophantus: A Complete Translation and Commentary - Paperback

by Jean Christianidis (Author), Jeffrey Oaks (Author)

This volume offers an English translation of all ten extant books of Diophantus' Arithmetica, alongside a comprehensive conceptual, historical, and mathematical commentary. Of interest to scholars of history from ancient Greece to the Renaissance, historians of mathematics, science, and technology, and mathematicians.

Author Biography

Jean Christianidis is a professor of history of mathematics at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece) and partner member of the Centre Alexandre-Koyré (Paris, France). He has authored or co-authored numerous articles on Diophantus and on Greek and Byzantine mathematics.

Jeffrey Oaks is a mathematics professor at University of Indianapolis (USA). He is co-author of the 2021 book Al-Hawārī's Essential Commentary: Arabic Arithmetic in the Fourteenth Century.