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The history of Alexandrian mathematics begins with the Elements of Euclid and closes with the Algebra of Diophantus, both of which are founded on the discoveries of several preceding centuries.
A Short History of Greek Mathematics (1884)
With Diophantus the history of Greek arithmetic comes to an end. No original work, that we know of, was done afterwards.
A Short History of Greek Mathematics (1884)
A student of history, who cares little for Greek or mathematics in particular, but who likes to watch how things grow, will be able to extract from these pages a notion of the whole history of mathematical science down to Newton's time...
A Short History of Greek Mathematics (1884)
Probably Greek logistic, or calculation, extended to more difficult operations... and... probably Greek arithmetic, or theory of numbers, owed much more to induction than is permitted to appear by its first and chief professors.
A Short History of Greek Mathematics (1884)