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 (al-Iskandariyya) is the great Mediterranean port-city of northern Egypt, founded by Alexander the Great in 331 BCE and a leading centre of learning in antiquity. After the Muslim conquest of Egypt (642) it remained a major commercial and scholarly hub; the Shadhili Sufi Ibn Ata Allah al-Iskandari (d. 1309) took his nisba from the city, and the modernist reformer Muhammad Abduh (d. 1905) was active in Egypt's intellectual life there and in Cairo.
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