Timeline for Origin of the term "Diophantine equation"
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| May 26, 2015 at 0:27 | comment | added | R.P. | +1. Thanks! It looks like Bonnycastle and Maynard simply use the adjective "Diophantine" in the sense "resembling the problems considered by Diophantus". From there, I can see how the term could have got generalized. (Of course, I still suspect that the term was coined even earlier, since this is just an algebra textbook.) | |
| May 26, 2015 at 0:10 | history | answered | Timothy Chow | CC BY-SA 3.0 |