Kept Alive in Arabic
Diophantus's Arithmetica in Arabic
صناعة الجبر لديوفنطس
Diophantus wrote thirteen books on arithmetical problems; only six survive in Greek. In the shrine library at Mashhad an Arabic translation attributed to Qusta ibn Luqa came to light, with four books that have no Greek original. Its manuscript, copied in 595 AH (1198–99), is older than any Greek manuscript of his.
- Author
- Diophantus of Alexandria (c. 3rd century; Arabic translation attributed to Qusta ibn Luqa (d. 912))
- Field
- Mathematics
- What Arabic kept
- Four books with no Greek original
- Greek title
- Ἀριθμητικά
- Arabic title
- صناعة الجبر (المسائل العدديّة)
- Latin title
- Arithmetica, Books IV–VII (Arabic)
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Sources
- MacTutor, «Diophantus of Alexandria» (University of St Andrews)
- Jacques Sesiano, Books IV to VII of Diophantus' Arithmetica in the Arabic Translation Attributed to Qusṭā ibn Lūqā (Springer, 1982)
- رشدي راشد (تحقيق)، ديوفنطس: صناعة الجبر، الهيئة المصريّة العامّة للكتاب، القاهرة، المقدّمة ص٨–١٠
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