The Collaborative International Dictionary
Diophantine
Diophantine \Di`o*phan"tine\, a. Originated or taught by Diophantus, the Greek writer on algebra.
Diophantine analysis (Alg.), that branch of indeterminate analysis which has for its object the discovery of rational values that satisfy given equations containing squares or cubes; as, for example, to find values of x and y which make x^ 2 + y^ 2 an exact square.
Wiktionary
diophantine
a. (alternative case form of Diophantine English)
Wikipedia
Diophantine
Diophantine means pertaining to the ancient Greek mathematician Diophantus. A number of concepts bear this name:
- Diophantine approximation
- Diophantine equation
- Diophantine quintuple
- Diophantine set
Usage examples of "diophantine".
Homer and Cicero, Goethe and Schiller, philology and the diophantine solution for algebraic equations.