Diophantine means pertaining to the ancient Greek mathematician Diophantus. Diophantus of Alexandria ( Greek: b between 200 and 214 d between 284 and 298 AD sometimes called "the father of Algebra " a title some claim should A number of concepts bear this name:
In Number theory, the field of Diophantine approximation, named after Diophantus of Alexandria, deals with the approximation of Real numbers by Rational In Mathematics, a Diophantine equation is an indeterminate Polynomial Equation that allows the variables to be Integers only In Mathematics, a Diophantine set of j - Tuples of Integers is a set S for which there is some Polynomial with integer