Fermat forms his own opinions

EDITED by Claude Bachet de Méziriac, the first printed edition of the Arthmeticorum… of Diophantus of Alexandria, a 3rd century AD Greek mathematician who is sometimes called the ‘Father of Algebra’, was published in Toulouse in 1621.

A second edition, the title-page of which is shown left, was published in 1670 and it is the name th…