A note on the cattle problem of Archimedes

DOI10.1006/HMAT.1993.1025MaRDI QIDQ1309151zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Peter Schreiber

Publication date 20 December 1993

Published in Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1006/hmat.1993.1025

zbMATH Keywords

ArchimedesEratosthenes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Greek and Roman mathematics (01A20)

Review text

The cattle problem, which was already famous in antiquity, is contained in an epigram which was sent by Archimedes to Eratosthenes with instructions to submit it to the Alexandrian mathematicians. The problem may quite well originate from Archimedes. The known ``solutions, however, contradict one of the conditions given in the wording of the problem: In each sort of cattle there are many more bulls than cows. This condition obviously fails for the brown cattle.

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