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Little is known about his life. He lived in Alexandria and he died when he was 84 years old. Probably Diophantus was a Hellenized Babylonian.
He was known for his study of equations with variables which take on rational values and these Diophantine equations are named after him. Diophantus is sometimes known as the "father of Algebra".
It was in the margin of a translation from Greek to Latin of Diophantus' work Aritmetike (The Arithmetic) from circa 250 that Pierre de FermatPierre de Fermat ( August 17, 1601 January 12, 1665) was a French lawyer at the Parliament of Toulouse and a mathematician who is given credit for the development of modern calculus. In particular, he is the precursor of differential calculus with his met wrote his famous comment that is known as Fermat's last theoremFermat's last theorem (sometimes abbreviated as FLT and also called Fermat's great theorem is one of the most famous theorems in the history of mathematics. It states that: :There are no positive natural numbers a b and c such that where n is a natural nu.
Diophantus also wrote a treatise about polygonal numberIn mathematics, a polygonal number is a number that can be arranged as a regular polygon. Ancient mathematicians discovered that numbers could be arranged in certain ways when they were represented by pebbles or seeds. The number 10, for example, can be as.