§2.1 FROM EGYPT TO EGYPT: Diophantus, 15 the father of algebra, in whose honor I have named this chapter, lived in Alexandria, in Roman Egypt, in either the 1st, the 2nd, or the 3rd century CE. I ...
§3.1 THE WORD “ALGEBRA,” as everyone knows, comes from the Arabic language. This has always seemed to me somewhat unfair, for reasons I shall get to shortly. Unfair or not, it requires some ...
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