Archimedes' Cattle Problem

DOI10.2307/2589706MaRDI QIDQ4222470zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Ilan Vardi

Publication date 14 August 2000

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/2589706

zbMATH Keywords

Archimedes cattle problemcontinued fractionsfundamental solutionPell's equationseven linear and two quadratic diophantine equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Greek and Roman mathematics (01A20) History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of number theory (11-03) Quadratic and bilinear Diophantine equations (11D09) Quadratic extensions (11R11)

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