Mention229575
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| so:text | Though the defects in Diophantus' proofs are in general due to the limitation of his symbolism, it is not so always. Very frequently indeed Diophantus introduces into a solution arbitrary conditions and determinations which are not in the problem. Of such "fudged" solutions, as a schoolboy would call them, two particular kinds are very frequent. Sometimes an unknown is assumed at a determinate value... Sometimes a new condition is introduced. (en) |
| so:isPartOf | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_Gow_(scholar) |
| so:description | A Short History of Greek Mathematics (1884) (en) |
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