Diophanti Redivivi Pars Prior Posterior In Qua Non Casu Ut Putatum Est Sed Certissima Methodo

by Jacques De Billy

$12,500 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Lyon: J. Thiolly, 1670. First edition, rare, of this early treatise on number theory, explicating and extending the indeterminate problems in the Arithmetica of Diophantus fl. 3rd century AD . It represents an important testament to the early development of this branch of mathematics. Some of the methods used by Billy 1602-79 derived from Pierre de Fermat 1601-65 , the inventor of modern

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