The Arithmetica of Diophantus

This volume offers an English translation of all ten extant books of Diophantus' Arithmetica, alongside a comprehensive conceptual, historical, and mathematical commentary. Of interest to scholars of history from ancient Greece to the Renaissance, historians of mathematics, science, and technology, and mathematicians.

Jean Christianidis is a professor of history of mathematics at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece) and partner member of the Centre Alexandre-Koyré (Paris, France). He has authored or co-authored numerous articles on Diophantus and on Greek and Byzantine mathematics. Jeffrey Oaks is a mathematics professor at University of Indianapolis (USA). He is co-author of the 2021 book Al-Haw-r-'s Essential Commentary: Arabic Arithmetic in the Fourteenth Century.

Part I: Introduction, 1. Diophantus and his work, 2. Numbers, problem solving, and algebra, 3. History, 4. Structure and language of the Arithmetica, 5. The didactic aspect of the Arithmetica, Part II: Translation, Part III: Commentary, Part IV: Appendices.