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Diophantus of Alexandria (about ad 250) Hellenistic Greek mathematician whose work displayed an algebraic approach to the solution of equations in one or more unknowns, unlike earlier Greek methods that were more geometrical. In the books of Arithmetica that survive, particular numerical examples of more than 100 problems are solved, probably to indicate the general methods of solution. These are mostly of the kind now referred to as Diophantine equations.
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