James Gow (scholar) Quote

Sometimes... Diophantus solves a problem wholly or in part by synthesis....Although...Diophantus does not treat his problems generally and is usually content with finding any particular numbers which happen to satisfy the conditions of his problems,...he does occasionally attempt such general solutions as were possible to him. But these solutions are not often exhaustive because he had no symbol for a general coefficient.


A Short History of Greek Mathematics (1884)


Sometimes... Diophantus solves a problem wholly or in part by synthesis....Although...Diophantus does not treat his problems generally and is usually ...

Sometimes... Diophantus solves a problem wholly or in part by synthesis....Although...Diophantus does not treat his problems generally and is usually ...

Sometimes... Diophantus solves a problem wholly or in part by synthesis....Although...Diophantus does not treat his problems generally and is usually ...

Sometimes... Diophantus solves a problem wholly or in part by synthesis....Although...Diophantus does not treat his problems generally and is usually ...