A Day in the Life of Diophantus (c. 251 A.D.)

Rebecca Pekrul | published Jan, 1999

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First Date of Publication
Jan, 1999
Original Source
Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal
Additional Publication Information
Issue 19
Medium
Short Story
Original Language
English
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Summary: A fictional newsreport from the Roman Empire, which reports a conversation in the household of the mathematician Diophantus, where the mathematician's wife gives him a neat idea.

Story Tag Line: “…I guess instead of writing ‘the unknown quantity’ I could write ‘x’…”


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