[1] 托马斯·希恩,Diophantus of Alexandria: A Study in the History of Greek Algebra,second edition(Cambridge University Press,1910,Dover Publications,1964),3。

    [2] Greek Mathematical Works II: Aristarchus to Pappus of Alexandria(Loeb Classical Library No. 362),由Ivor Thomas翻译(Harvard University Press,1941),512–3。

    [3] 这些日期来自Simon Hornblower and Antony Sprawforth,eds.,Oxford Classical Dictionary,revised third edition(Oxford University Press,2003),483。

    [4] 这些亚历山大数学家们的生活年代来自Charles Coulston Gillispie,ed.,Dictionary of Scientific Biography (Scribners,1970)。

    [5] 希恩,Diophantus of Alexandria,2,note 2。希恩本人好像也对此持怀疑态度。

    [6] 希恩,Diophantus of Alexandria,168。

    [7] 对于ax2 + bx + c = 0,解为x =[1] 托马斯·希恩 - 图1

    [8] Hermann Hankel (1874) 引用希恩的 Diophantus of Alexandria,54–55。其他数学家就丢番图的方法找到了更清晰的方式。参见Isabella Grigoryevna Bashmakova,Diophantus and Diophantine Equations(Mathematical Association of America,1997),ch. 4。

    [9] 希恩,Diophantus of Alexandria,52–53。

    [10] 希恩,Diophantus of Alexandria,224。

    [11] 希恩,Diophantus of Alexandria,225。

    [12] 希恩,Diophantus of Alexandria,144,note 3。