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An equation for eternity

机译:永恒方程

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The roots of algebra, as John Derbyshire tells us, go back to the ancient world: the Babylonians left cuneiform tablets showing simple algebraic problems. Its actual birth is usually credited to Diophan-tus of Alexandria, who wrote "Arithmetica" in Greek during the third century. Progress was slow. Negative numbers, or even the number zero, had not yet been invented, and the notation was cumbersome (try doing multiplication with Roman numerals).
机译:约翰·德比郡(John Derbyshire)告诉我们,代数的起源可以追溯到古代:巴比伦人留下的楔形文字片显示出简单的代数问题。它的实际诞生通常归功于亚历山大·迪奥潘图斯(Diophan-tus),他在第三世纪用希腊语写了“算术”。进展缓慢。负数甚至零数尚未被发明出来,这种记法很麻烦(尝试与罗马数字相乘)。

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