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Diophanti Alexandrini Arithmeticorum libri sex

Diophanti Alexandrini Arithmeticorum libri sex by DIOPHANTUS OF ALEXANDRIA

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Diophanti Alexandrini Arithmeticorum libri sex
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DIOPHANTUS OF ALEXANDRIA
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Heritage Book Shop, LLC (United States)
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Toulouse: Bernard Bosc, 1670. Full Description: DIOPHANTUS OF ALEXANDRIA. Diophanti Alexandrini Arithmeticorum libri sex et De numeris multangulis liber unus. Cum commentariis C.G. Bachet V.C., et observationibus D.P. de Fermata ... accessit Doctrinae analyticae inventum novum Toulouse: Bernard Bosc, 1670. First edition of Fermat's notes and second edition of Bachet's Diophantus. Quarto (13 x 8 1/4 inches; 330 x 215 mm). [xii], 64, 341[ie 343, [1, blank], 48 pp. Bound without the scarce errata at the end (also not present in the Norman copy). Pages 55/56 bound after page 57/58 in the preliminaries. Two leaves are both numbered 335/336, but collation is correct and text is complete. Leaf fii is bound after fiii in the final section. Latin (Xylander's translation) and Greek text in parallel columns. Separate pagination for De Numeris multangulis. Allegorical engraved title vignette featuring Orpheus playing the lyre. Handsome engraved headpieces, and historiated initials. Numerous woodcut illustrations and ornaments. Contemporary tree calf. Spine stamped and ruled in gilt. Red morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. Board edges tooled in gilt. All edges marbled. Marbled endpapers. Outer hinge of front cover repaired. Some slight rubbing to boards. Leaves sporadically toned and slightly foxed. Some minor light pencil marginalia. Signature A trimmed about 3 mm short on bottom margin, but does not look supplied. A small paper flaw tear to inner margin of leaves Aaiii-Cciv, not much larger than a pencil point, and not affecting text. Evidence of a removed bookplate on front pastedown. Overall, a very attractive and tall copy. This publication contains the first edition of Fermat's number theorems, edited partially from his letters after his death in 1665. "Fermat was the first European to make extensive contributions to the theory of numbers, taking up the challenge in number theory posed in Diophantus' Arithmetica. Fermat owned a copy f the editio princeps of Diophantus's work (1621), edited by Bachet de Mériziac and published with Xylander's Latin translation. Fermat took issue with Bachet's statements, writing his own results for the most part in the margins of his copy. Five years after Fermat's death, his son Claude Samuel published a second edition of Bachet's Diophantus, adding to it his father's marginal notes... The remainder of Fermat's notes contained a large number of theorems on the theory of numbers, only one of which he proved himself; the rest were proven in the eighteenth century" (Norman). Diophantus of Alexandria (fl 250 AD) was the first mathematician to introduce symbolism into Greek algebra. The French scholar Bachet de Méziriac first published his edition of the Arithmetica of Diophantus in 1621 and it was the chief source of the many books on mathematical recreations issued during the seventeenth century. Norman I; 777. Honeyman 893. HBS 69414. $35,000.

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