A history of Greek mathematics Vol.II from Aristarchus to Diophantus by Heath, Thomas Little, Sir, 1921
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MACEDONIA is GREECE and will always be GREECE- (if they are desperate to steal a name, Monkeydonkeys suits them just fine)
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In the first<br />
DETERMINATE EQUATIONS 465<br />
and third <strong>of</strong> the last three cases the limits are not<br />
accurate, but are integral limits which are a fortiori safe.<br />
In the second f § should have been § J,<br />
and it would have been<br />
more correct <strong>to</strong> say that, if x is not greater than f<br />
-£ and not<br />
less than ff<br />
, the given conditions are a fortiori satisfied.<br />
For comparison with <strong>Diophantus</strong>'s solutions <strong>of</strong> quadratic<br />
equations we may refeV <strong>to</strong> a few <strong>of</strong> his solutions <strong>of</strong><br />
(3) Simultaneous equations involving quadratics.<br />
In I. 27, 28, and 30 we have the following pairs <strong>of</strong> equations.<br />
(a) ^rj = 2a] (/3) £ + v = 2a\ (y) £- V = 2a)<br />
I use the <strong>Greek</strong> letters for the numbers required <strong>to</strong> be found<br />
as distinct <strong>from</strong> the one unknown which <strong>Diophantus</strong> uses, and<br />
which I shall call x.<br />
In (a), he says, let £ — r] = 2x (£ > rj).<br />
It follows, <strong>by</strong> addition and subtraction, that £ = a + x,<br />
tj — a — x\<br />
therefore £rj — (a + x) (a — x) = a 2 — x 2 = B,<br />
and x is found <strong>from</strong> the pure quadratic equation.<br />
In (/3) similarly he assumes £ — t] = 2x, and the resulting<br />
equation is £ 2 + rj 2 — (a + x) 2 + (a — x)<br />
2<br />
= 2 (a 2 + x 2 )<br />
= B.<br />
In (y) he puts £ + ?; = 2x and solves as in the case <strong>of</strong> (a).<br />
(4) Cubic equation.<br />
Only one very particular case occurs.<br />
leads <strong>to</strong> the equation<br />
x 2 + 2x + 3 = x* + 3x — 3x 2 — 1.<br />
In VI. 17 the problem<br />
<strong>Diophantus</strong> says simply ' whence x is found <strong>to</strong> be 4 '. In fact<br />
the equation reduces <strong>to</strong><br />
x z + x = 4x 2 + 4.<br />
<strong>Diophantus</strong> no doubt detected, and divided out <strong>by</strong>, the common<br />
fac<strong>to</strong>r x 2 + 1 , leaving x = 4.<br />
1523.2 H ll<br />
466 DIOPHANTUS OF ALEXANDRIA<br />
(B)<br />
Indeterminate equations.<br />
<strong>Diophantus</strong> says nothing <strong>of</strong> indeterminate equations <strong>of</strong> the<br />
first degree. The reason is perhaps that it is a principle with<br />
him <strong>to</strong> admit rational fractional as well as integral solutions,<br />
whereas the whole point <strong>of</strong> indeterminate equations <strong>of</strong> the<br />
first degree is <strong>to</strong> obtain a solution in integral numbers.<br />
Without this limitation (foreign <strong>to</strong> <strong>Diophantus</strong>) such equations<br />
have no significance.<br />
(a) Indeterminate equations <strong>of</strong> the second degree.<br />
The form in which these equations occur is invariably this<br />
one or two (but never more) functions <strong>of</strong> x <strong>of</strong> the form<br />
Ax 2 -f Bx + G or simpler forms are <strong>to</strong> be made rational square<br />
numbers <strong>by</strong> finding a suitable value for x. That is, we have<br />
<strong>to</strong> solve, in the most general case, one or two equations <strong>of</strong> the<br />
form Ax 2 + Bx + C = y<br />
2<br />
.<br />
(1) Single equation.<br />
The solutions take different forms according <strong>to</strong> the particular<br />
values <strong>of</strong> the coefficients. Special cases arise when one or<br />
more <strong>of</strong> them vanish or they satisfy certain conditions.<br />
1. When A or G or both vanish, the equation can always<br />
be solved rationally.<br />
2<br />
Form Bx = y<br />
.<br />
2<br />
Form Bx + G = y<br />
.<br />
<strong>Diophantus</strong> puts for y 2 any determinate square m 2 , and x is<br />
immediately found.<br />
Form Ax 2 + Bx — y<br />
2<br />
.<br />
<strong>Diophantus</strong> puts for y any multiple <strong>of</strong> x, as — x.<br />
2. The equation Ax 2 + C = y2<br />
can be rationally solved according<br />
<strong>to</strong> <strong>Diophantus</strong><br />
(a) when A is positive and a square, say a 2 ;<br />
in this case we put a 2 x 2 + G = (ax ± m) 2 , whence<br />
x= -\<br />
C — m 2<br />
(m and the sign being so chosen as <strong>to</strong> give x a positive value)