Diophantus of Alexandria (Greek: Διόφαντος ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς. b. between 200 and 214 CE, d. between 284 and 298 CE), sometimes called "the father of algebra" (a title some claim should be shared by Persian Islamic mathematician al-Khwārizmī, born some 500 years after Diophantus), was an Alexandrian mathematician and the author of a series of books called Arithmetica. These texts deal… (More on Diophantus)