Science vs. Nature vs. Scientific American
The Arithmetica had a big affect on later mathematicians, such as Pierre de Fermat, who arrived at his well-known Last Theorem after making an attempt to generalize an issue he had read within the Arithmetica (that of dividing a square into two squares). Diophantus additionally made vital advances in notation, the Arithmetica being the primary occasion of algebraic symbolism and syncopation.
In the Principia Mathematica, Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead advanced the philosophical program generally known as logicism, and attempted to show that every one mathematical concepts, statements, and ideas may be defined and proved entirely in terms of …