Timeline for Why certain diophantine equations are interesting (and others are not) ?
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| Jun 16, 2019 at 3:03 | history | edited | KConrad | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
put equations in math mode
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| Oct 16, 2013 at 23:08 | comment | added | Mariano Suárez-Álvarez | Rereading this after three years is no less a pleasure than it was originally. | |
| Oct 18, 2010 at 12:12 | comment | added | KConrad | Several elementary problems leading to Pell's equation are in Barbeau's incredibly well-titled book "Pell's equation". The problems lead to a Pell-like equation x^2 - dy^2 = n where d is a small number, usually 2 or 3. | |
| Oct 18, 2010 at 12:05 | history | edited | KConrad | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
added 1 characters in body
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| Oct 18, 2010 at 10:43 | comment | added | Chandan Singh Dalawat | The Pell's equation approach to Archimedes' cattle problem is discussed by Lenstra in the Notices fo the AMS (ams.org/notices/200202/fea-lenstra.pdf). | |
| Oct 18, 2010 at 9:18 | history | answered | KConrad | CC BY-SA 2.5 |