Delta-K,  Feature Articles,  Volume 34, Issue 2

Diophantine Analysis and Linear Indeterminate Problems

Journal of the Mathematics Council of the Alberta Teachers’ Association

Volume 34 Issue 2, September 1997

54 – 56

Diophantine Analysis and Linear Indeterminate Problems

Sandra M. Pulver

Greek mathematics is regarded worldwide for its geometric character and has gained fame in this field. However, during the late Alexandrian period, about A.D. 250, when Greek science and philosophy were on the decline as a whole, and with them mathematics, algebra began to emerge as the main topic of interest.