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Diophantus

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Diophantus of Alexandria (born c. AD 200 – c. 214; died c. AD 284 – c. 298) was a Greek mathematician, who was the author of two main works: On Polygonal Numbers, which survives incomplete, and the Arithmetica in thirteen books, most of it extant, made up of arithmetical problems that are solved through algebraic equations.Diophantus was the first Greek mathematician who recognized positive rational numbers as numbers, by allowing fractions for coefficients and solutions. He coined the term παρισότης (parisotes) to refer to an approximate equality. This term was rendered as adaequalitas in Latin, and became the technique of adequality developed by Pierre de Fermat to find maxima for functions and tangent lines to curves. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Diophantus has received more than 585,629 page views. His biography is available in 67 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 66 in 2019). Diophantus is the 20th most popular mathematician (up from 22nd in 2019), the 25th most popular biography from Egypt (down from 24th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Egyptian Mathematician.

Diophantus is most famous for his work in algebra, where he looked at how to solve polynomial equations of the form ax^2+bx+c=0.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Diophantus ranks 20 out of 823Before him are Fibonacci, John Forbes Nash Jr., Pierre-Simon Laplace, John von Neumann, Joseph-Louis Lagrange, and Henri Poincaré. After him are Jean le Rond d'Alembert, Joseph Fourier, Hero of Alexandria, Luca Pacioli, David Hilbert, and Évariste Galois.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 201, Diophantus ranks 1After him are Decius, Lucifer of Cagliari, Annia Faustina, Allectus, Alexander of Bergamo, and Anatolius of Laodicea. Among people deceased in 300, Diophantus ranks 1After him are Saint Christopher, Bhāsa, Sasan, Meng Huo, Saturnin, Achilles Tatius, Sabellius, Ma Dai, Xenophon of Ephesus, Marcia Otacilia Severa, and Saint Martial.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Diophantus ranks 25 out of 582Before him are Hosni Mubarak (1928), Anwar Sadat (1918), Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918), Nefertari (-1290), Dalida (1933), and Hagar (-1800). After him are Seti I (-1323), Hero of Alexandria (10), Khafra (-2550), Athanasius of Alexandria (295), Miriam (-1400), and Ramesses I (-1300).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In Egypt

Among mathematicians born in Egypt, Diophantus ranks 3Before him are Euclid (-350) and Hypatia (350). After him are Hero of Alexandria (10), Ctesibius (-284), Pappus of Alexandria (290), Theon of Alexandria (335), Menelaus of Alexandria (70), Ahmes (-1680), Ibn Yunus (950), and Abū Kāmil Shujāʿ ibn Aslam (850).