How Long to Read The Arithmetica of Diophantus

How Long Does it Take to Read The Arithmetica of Diophantus?

It takes the average reader 14 hours and 54 minutes to read The Arithmetica of Diophantus by Jean Christianidis

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This volume offers an English translation of all ten extant books of Diophantus of Alexandria’s Arithmetica, along with a comprehensive conceptual, historical, and mathematical commentary. Before his work became the inspiration for the emerging field of number theory in the seventeenth century, Diophantus (ca. 3rd c. CE) was known primarily as an algebraist. This volume explains how his method of solving arithmetical problems agrees both conceptually and procedurally with the premodern algebra later practiced in Arabic, Latin, and European vernaculars, and how this algebra differs radically from the modern algebra initiated by François Viète and René Descartes. It also discusses other surviving traces of ancient Greek algebra and follows the influence of the Arithmetica in medieval Islam, Byzantium, and the European Renaissance down to the 1621 publication of Claude-Gaspard Bachet’s edition. After the English translation the book provides a problem-by-problem commentary explaining the solutions in a manner compatible with Diophantus’s mode of thought. The Arithmetica of Diophantus provides an invaluable resource for historians of mathematics, science, and technology, as well as those studying ancient Greek, medieval Islamic and Byzantine, and Renaissance history. In addition, the volume is also suitable for mathematicians and mathematics educators.

How long is The Arithmetica of Diophantus?

The Arithmetica of Diophantus by Jean Christianidis is 891 pages long, and a total of 223,641 words.

This makes it 301% the length of the average book. It also has 273% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Arithmetica of Diophantus Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 20 hours and 22 minutes to read The Arithmetica of Diophantus aloud.

What Reading Level is The Arithmetica of Diophantus?

The Arithmetica of Diophantus is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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