The name Diophantus has long been attached to what we call under-determined algebraic problems with more unknowns than information. He himself was short of good methods of attack but his work has been the jump off point for a great and hugely productive range of mathematical developments. His choice of word problems remains a source of fascination to this day and that is the topic of this book..
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