
Maths in the Early Islamic World
In Our Time
The Greek Soft Problems, the Arabs, Solved Equations
Wenletyou: The greek soft problems were solved by equations. Diophantus was a mathematician who lived roughly in the third century a d and he opend sir his arithmetics, his boke. He would go through concrete steps to solve this particular problem. And then you know how the lower number is 30,. And then you add forty to the lower number, and then you have 70. I mean, that's the first problem, an the easiest there.
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