The first contains the “Arithmetic of Diophantus,” with notes and additions.
He therefore rejected the view which was formerly held that Diophantus lived in that century.
One of these was a commentary on the Arithmetica of Diophantus.
Diophantus shows that he solved quadratic equations by rule, like Heron.
The germ of the idea is to be found in the works of Diophantus of Alexandria, who wrote about the beginning of the fourth century.
